Top 27 Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

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

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

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.

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

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

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

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.