Georgia O’Keeffe Quotes

Example of O’Keeffe’s painting style. (Courtesy of Pinterest)

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small.  We haven’t time, and to see takes time–like to have a friend takes time.

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was an American modernist painter whose career spanned seven decades.  She was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.

Norman Rockwell Quotes

Norman Rockwell found endless ways to portray American life, just as he is doing in this photograph. (Courtesy of Pinterest)

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was an American artist and illustrator.  His works were published in magazines, advertisements, covers, calendars, and so much more.  He accurately displayed the essence of American life.

Joni Mitchell Quotes

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When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it’s time for artists to make this work.

I see music as fluid architecture.

Joni Mitchell (born 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and painter.  

James Weldon Johnson Quotes

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Music is a universal art; anybody’s music belongs to everybody; you can’t limit it to race or country.

The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced.

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was an American writer and civil rights activist.  He was actively involved in the leadership of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).  He wrote lyrics for the hymn, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which later became known as the national anthem for African-Americans.