„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 or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time.“

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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„The large 'White Flower' [Georgia painted in 1929] with the golden heart is something I have to say about White – quite different from what White has been meaning to me. Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know that the flower is painted large to convey to you my experience of the flower – and what is my experience of the flower if it is not color.“
— Georgia O'Keeffe
„I paint flowers so they will not die.“
— Frida Kahlo
„Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.“
— Claude Monet
„I hate flowers — I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move!“
— Georgia O'Keeffe
„Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my effort to create an equivalent with paint color for the world – life as I see it.“
— Georgia O'Keeffe