“ I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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. Georgia O'Keeffe
“ When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look… Georgia O'Keeffe
“ 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 decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. Georgia O'Keeffe
“ Nobody sees a flower really it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time. Georgia O'Keeffe
“ Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things. Georgia O'Keeffe
“ One can not 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 unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon li… Georgia O'Keeffe
“ Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it’s all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have… Georgia O'Keeffe
