All Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
- 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… Creativity
- 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 best… Accept
- I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it-how good… Already Settled
- A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big. Big
- 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 world here-... always… Another World
- Imagination makes you see all sorts of things. All
- If only people were trees… I might like them better. Better
- I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me. Criticism
- Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint. Application
- The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty… Alive
- I have not worked at all... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that… All
- Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience… Color
- All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands... All
- You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't. Critics
- I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all. All
- The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it… Clear
- When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs. Affair
- I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults… Cult
- Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man? ...I… Acquired
- My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun… Any
- I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it. Empty
- I always have a curious sort of feeling about some of my things - I hate to show them - I am perfectly inconsistent about… Afraid
- Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. Continuous
- The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life. All
- There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces. All