Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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.

To create one's 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.

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.

The days you work are the best days.

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

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

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

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.