quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do."
— Georgia O'Keeffe

"If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment."
— Georgia O'Keeffe

"I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous."
— Georgia O'Keeffe

"I decided to accept as true my own thinking."
— Georgia O'Keeffe

"I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
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— Georgia O'Keeffe

"I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me,so natural to my way of being and thinking."
— Georgia O'Keeffe

"Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. "
— Georgia O'Keeffe (Georgia O'Keeffe)

"I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!"
— Georgia O'Keeffe

"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage."
— Georgia O'Keeffe

"Nobody sees a flower--really--it's so small. We haven't time and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."
— Georgia O'Keeffe

"Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing."
— Georgia O'Keeffe

"I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to."
— Georgia O'Keeffe

"I hate flowers."
— Georgia O'Keeffe

"My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around."
— Georgia O'Keeffe

"I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to ... I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way-- things I had no words for."
— Georgia O'Keeffe

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment. I wanted to give that world to someone else."
— Georgia O'Keeffe

"Nobody sees a flower--really it is so small--we haven't time--and to see takes time."
— Georgia O'Keeffe

"I said to myself, 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. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. "
— Georgia O'Keeffe

"To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage."
— Georgia O'Keeffe

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for."
— Georgia O'Keeffe