Georgia O’Keeffe Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

I decided that if I could paint that flower on a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

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

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

Beautifully fill a space.

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.

I decided to accept as true my own thinking.

Happiness goes like the wind, but what are interesting stays.

Since I cannot sing, I paint.

You are one of my nicest thoughts.

To make your unknown known, that's the important thing.

I want real things, music that makes holes in the sky.

I feel there is something unexplored about women that only a woman can explore.

A flower touches everyone's heart.

The days you work are the best days.

I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.

I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like about it.

I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

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

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.