Top 27 Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

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

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

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

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

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.

The days you work are the best days.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

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

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

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