Quotes by 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
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
– 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 hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
– Georgia O'Keeffe
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
– Georgia O'Keeffe
Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
– 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
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
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
– Georgia O'Keeffe
Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.
– Georgia O'Keeffe
The days you work are the best days.
– Georgia O'Keeffe
To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
– 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
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
– Georgia O'Keeffe
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
– 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