Georgia O’Keeffe

1887–1986 · American modernist painter

Georgia O’Keeffe was a pioneer of American modernism, celebrated for her magnified flowers, New York cityscapes, and the bleached bones and desert forms of New Mexico. She wrote sparingly but memorably about her work, and this line — about reaching for what words could not carry — is among her most quoted reflections on why she painted abstractly.

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“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way”

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