Frases de Georgia O'Keeffe

Fuente: Citada en Márquez López Mato, Andrea (2005) «La bisexualidad en la impresión, el comportamiento y la expresión. Las desfloradas flores de Georgia O'Keefe».

Sin fuentes
Original: «I hate flowers. I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move».

Variante: To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

1970 - 1986, Some Memories of Drawings (1976)
Contexto: It is surprising to me to see how many people separate the objective from the abstract. Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or a tree. It is lines and colours put together so that they say something. For me that is the very basis of painting. The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint. …  I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way — things I had no words for.<!-- Also quoted in Georgia O’Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction (2007), edited by Richard Marshall, p. 13