Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

A picture is the expression of an impression

What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied with, how awkward that mark is.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.

My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.