Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.

I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

I have not worked at all... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that is the way it is.

I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.

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 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.

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'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.

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.