Georgia OKeeffe Quotes about Painting

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God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Artist, Mountain, Painting

The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Running, Painting, Reason

Katherine Hoffman, Georgia O'Keeffe (1984). “An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe”, Scarecrow Pr

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Skills, Trying, Painting

Georgia O'Keeffe, Bice Curiger, Carter Ratcliff, Peter Johannes Schneemann, Kunsthaus Zürich (2003). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Cantz

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Painting, Reason, Form

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Painting, Abstract, Objectives

Georgia O'Keeffe, Jonathan Stuhlman, Barbara Buhler Lynes (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction”, p.26, Hudson Hills

Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified until it can be nothing but abstraction.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Fashion, Goes On, Painting