Georgia O'keeffe Quotes

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

~ 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

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

~ 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

My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.

~ 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 listened to myself.

~ 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

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

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 line or just over the next hill.

~ 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

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

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

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 at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

~ 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

The days you work are the best days.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

~ Georgia O'keeffe