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 have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. - 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
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
My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around. - Georgia O'Keeffe
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve. - 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 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 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'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 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
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore. - Georgia O'Keffe