Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or a 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 the most the definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint.
—Georgia O’Keeffe, 1977
[Quote encountered today at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM.]
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