"I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see--and I don't.
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You paint from your subject, not what you see…I rarely paint anything I don’t know very well. It was 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 colors 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....
To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
4 comments:
That is a really awesome picture. A rose ? but rather abstract.
Thanks for sharing
Hi Mike, thanks for stopping by and for the nice comment. It is not a rose, but a "digital negative" macro shot of a garden peony (as are the images that I posted immediately before and after this one :)
My grandfather used to raise, hybridize and sell peonys.
Very cool :)
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