I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.
Georgia O'KeeffeRead
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.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the uniqueness of personal thought and creativity that flows naturally from within.
Georgia O'Keeffe emphasizes the importance of inner creativity and personal perception that are inherent to one's character. She reflects on how her ideas and inspirations are deeply rooted in her being, to the extent that they have not been formally articulated or influenced by external teachings, suggesting that true artistic expression stems from internal understanding and individuality.
In practice
Using this quote to inspire art students about the importance of personal style in their work.
I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
You are one of my nicest thoughts.
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.
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 tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.
Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.
There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
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