I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
He wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow - in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things-... I must say I feel far away in another… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I always have a curious sort of feeling about some of my things - I hate to show them - I am… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
That nervous energy that makes people like you and I want and go after everything in the world - bump our heads… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore unless the Indians are… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
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… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“I said to myself 'I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me--shapes and idea so near to… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man?… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to ... I found that I could say… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
