{"id":27942,"date":"2015-01-24T06:30:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T17:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=27942"},"modified":"2015-01-23T17:52:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T04:52:49","slug":"this-definitely-resonates-georgia-okeeffe-on-artistic-integrity-longevity-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/01\/24\/this-definitely-resonates-georgia-okeeffe-on-artistic-integrity-longevity-form\/","title":{"rendered":"This Definitely Resonates: Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe On Artistic Integrity, Longevity, &#038; Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;You and I don\u2019t know whether our vision is clear in relation to our time or not\u2014No matter what failure or success we may have\u2014we will not know\u2014But we can keep our integrity\u2014according to our own sense of balance with the world and that creates our form &#8230; I want to create my own [form] and I can\u2019t do anything else\u2014if I stop to think of what others\u2014authorities or the public\u2014or anyone\u2014would say of my form I\u2019d not be able to do anything.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I can never show what I am working on without being stopped\u2014whether it is liked or disliked I am affected in the same way\u2014sort of paralyzed\u2014&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe, 1887 &#8211; 1986: from letters to writer Sherwood Anderson<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>This quote resonates with my own personal experience that <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/01\/20\/the-tao-of-writing-the-book-that-can-be-spoken-of-is-not-the-book-aka-a-daughter-of-blood-update\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;the book that can be spoken of is not the book&#8221;<\/a>&#8212;until it&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n<p>It also tallies with my own conviction that whether artists or writers we can never know whether our creative work will endure or not, we can only strive to be true to the Muse and produce the very best work we are capable of.<\/p>\n<pre>* I discovered this quote via Maria Popova and the wonderful \r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brain Pickings<\/a> site<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You and I don\u2019t know whether our vision is clear in relation to our time or not\u2014No matter what failure or success we may have\u2014we will not know\u2014But we can keep our integrity\u2014according to our own sense of balance with the world and that creates our form &#8230; I want to create my own [form] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27942"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27953,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27942\/revisions\/27953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}