229 Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

He wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow - in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands in many different ways - also my head - and I had to turn this way and that. There were nudes that might have been of several different people - sitting - standing - even standing upon the radiator against the window - that was difficult - radiators don't intend you to stand on top of them. (On being photographed by Alfred Stieglitz)

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.

It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.