Georgia O'Keeffe in her artist quotes on painting & life - free resource, American art history

Georgia O’Keeffe in her quotes - the American artist on her painting art & life as woman-painter in the U.S. - free resource for pupils, students and teachers in American art history

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Georgia O’Keeffe, the American painter-artist tells in her artist quotes about painting art and her life in the U.S. during 1920’s-1930’s. She has become famous for her paintings of Mexican and American desert-landscapes, skulls and flower pieces. Many of her selected artist-quotes here are taken from her letters to friends.

O’Keeffe’s letters, as well as her painting art reveal a very personal way of perception; they show her intimate relation with wide American and Mexican landscape, in her painting art and in her personal life.
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Some selected artist-quotes of Georgia O’Keeffe - as short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’Anita, I have just come the comforting conclusion that I’ll have to paint acres and acres of water color landscapes before I will look for even a passably fair one.’ - quote from O’Keeffe’s letter to her friend Anita Pollitzer, New York, 1916, in: ‘The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O’Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer’, ed. Clive Giboire, Touchstone Books, Simon & Schuster Inc., New York, 1990

• ’…feel that a real living form is the natural result of the individual’s effort to create the living thing out of the adventure of his spirit into the unknown…’ - quote, from her letter to Sherwood Anderson, October 1923; as cited in ‘Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life’, R. Robinson, University Press, New England, 1999

• ’I know I cannot paint a flower. I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint color I can convey to you my experience of the flower…’ - quote from O’Keeffe’s letter to William Milliken (1930), as quoted in ‘Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O’Keeffe’, Laurie Lisle (1981), p. 128
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  links for free art-resources on American artist Georgia O’Keeffe:

  • biographical notes on Georgia O’Keeffe, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe
  • artist-quotes of ànd about O’Keeffe, Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe
  • images of the painting art of Georgia O’Keeffe, Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/georgia-o-keeffe
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]