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Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. She was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism".

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If only people were trees… I might like them better.

Like, Might, People, Tree, Trees

Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp.

Catching, Compared, Important, Keeping, Vision, Working

Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.

Imagination, See, Sorts, Things

I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.

Desire, Everything, Glad, Good, Sweet, World

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)

Hands, Move, Moving, People, Radiators, Way

I want real things. . . music that makes holes in the sky.

Real, Sky, Things, Want

I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.

Happenings, Knowing, Life, Things

Since I cannot sing, I paint.

Artist, Paint, Sing

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

Criticism, Make, Matters, Mind, Work, Writing

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

Away, Country, Flower, Quiet, Work

I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it-how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that, the critics can write what they please. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

Already, Criticism, Free, Mind, Please, Writing

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.

Badlands, Colours, Earth, Miles, Painter

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are.

Hesitating, Painted, Portraits, Real, Remember, World

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.

Believe, Done, Flower, Know, Like

Dearest - my body is simply crazy with wanting you - If you don't come tomorrow - I don't see how I can wait for you - I wonder if your body wants mine the way mine wants yours - the kisses - the hotness - the wetness - all melting together - the being held so tight that it hurts - the strangle and the struggle.

Crazy, Hurt, See, Struggle, Together, Wetness

I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.

Afraid, Anyway, Done, Gone, Life, Single

I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.

People, Time, Unreasonable, Wonderful

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

Erotic, People, Read, Thinking

One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella-- --When I had it in my hand it was so small I couldn't believe I had it--but I could feel the intense life--so intense and so tiny--. . . You were like the humming bird to me. . . And I am rather inclined to feel that you and I know the best part of one another without spending much time together-- --It is not that I fear the knowing-- It is that I am at this moment willing to let you be what you are to me--it is beautiful and pure and very intensely alive.

Beautiful, Believe, Down, Know, Knowing, Umbrella

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

Art, Art Is, Know, Knows, See

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