Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist
both quotes in a letter to William M. Milliken, New York November 1, 1930; as quoted in Voicing our visions, – Writings by women artists; ed. Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York, 1991, p. 227
1930s
“If you could see what these flowers are. [Morandi's remark, circa 1917 - to the writer Raimondi from Bologna, indicating flowers in the corner of a reproduction of a painting by w:El Greco – beneath the feet of angels and saints]). No modern painter has painted flowers like these. Perhaps only Renoir”
Quote of Morandi; as cited in Morandi 1894 – 1964, ed: M. C. Bandera & R. Miracco, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, 2008; p. 48
1925 - 1945
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Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist
In a letter to William Milliken (1930), quoted in Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, Laurie Lisle (1981), p. 128
1930s
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) French painter and sculptor
Quoted in: Charles Altieri (1989) Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry, p. 169: Talking about the movement of Impressionism.
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“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
“When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.”
Reginald Heber (1783–1826) English clergyman
Hymn for Seventh Sunday after Trinity; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 746.
“Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
his remark, shortly after the death of his second wife Alice in 1911; as quoted in: K.E. Sullivan Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 76
1900 - 1920
Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) American artist
statement for catalogue of 'Forum exhibition 1916', reprinted in On art, p. 66-67; as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 57
1908 - 1920
“You are like one of your bees, going from flower to flower, sampling the nectar of this and that.”
Nick Drake (poet) (1961) British writer
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