Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.