Top 27 Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.