Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”

“It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.”

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.”

“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.”

“My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.”

“Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end its all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should hav...”

“Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.”

“I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”

“The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon ...”

“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my lifeand I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”

“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.”

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to lo...”

“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.”

“The days you work are the best days.”

“To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.”

“I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.”

“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.”

“To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.”

“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.”

“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.”