I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me. — 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
When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home too...I have used these… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
So, probably … when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones — what… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all. — 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
It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men… — 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
