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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

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. — Jerry Saltz

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. — Georgia O'Keeffe

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

I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Fill a space in a beautiful way. — Georgia O'Keeffe

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs. — Georgia O'Keeffe

To create one's own world takes courage. — Georgia O'Keeffe

The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me. — 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

One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work. — Georgia O'Keeffe

The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life. — Georgia O'Keeffe

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again. — Georgia O'Keeffe

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway. — Georgia O'Keeffe

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

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then. — 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

To make your unknown known - that's the important thing. — Georgia O'Keeffe

You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well. — 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

I keep thinking: 'Georgia O'Keeffe wouldn't have had Botox.' — Gloria Steinem

I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it. — 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 believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know. — Georgia O'Keeffe

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands ... — Georgia O'Keeffe

We stood surrounded by orchids that would make Georgia O'Keeffe teary-eyed and most lesbians distracted. — Eva Indigo

Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are. — Georgia O'Keeffe

The days you work are the best days. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays. — Georgia O'Keeffe

You are one of my nicest thoughts. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York. — Yayoi Kusama

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them. — Georgia O'Keeffe

If only people were trees ... I might like them better. — Georgia O'Keeffe

It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I've been terrified my whole life but it never kept me from doing a single thing. — Georgia O'Keeffe

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country. — Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I wish so much to go that I almost wish I had never been there. — Georgia O'Keeffe

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. — Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Since I cannot sing, I paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe

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

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe

My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it. (Life, March 1, 1968) — Georgia O'Keeffe

A flower is relatively small ... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. — Georgia O'Keeffe

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

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare. — Georgia O'Keeffe

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could. — Georgia O'Keeffe

We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz) — Georgia O'Keeffe

It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky. — Georgia O'Keeffe

War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier. — Georgia O'Keeffe

His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty ... — Georgia O'Keeffe

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. — Georgia O'Keeffe

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all? — Georgia O'Keeffe

I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected. — Georgia O'Keeffe

My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me. — Georgia O'Keeffe

There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it. — Georgia O'Keeffe

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Imagination makes you see all sorts of things. — Georgia O'Keeffe

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

I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to. — Alec Baldwin

The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words. — Georgia O'Keeffe

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. — Georgia O'Keeffe