Georgia O’Keeffe: “I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me…”

“I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me…shapes and ideas so near to me…so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down…”

From the Georgia O’Keeffe profile page.

Joan Allen plays O’Keeffe in the Lifetime drama premiering September 19, was also an executive producer and says she felt a kinship with the painter.

“She knew what she wanted to do: At 8 years old she was playing with her friend and asked her, ‘What are you going to do when you grow up?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘Well, I’m gonna be a painter.’

“At 8 years old, I was, ‘I’m gonna be an actor.’ So I could see that we shared a kind of focus.” [thestarnews.info]

Lifetime site for their Georgia O’Keeffe drama.

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