Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

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

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.

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

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary—you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

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

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

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

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. -Georgia O'Keeffe.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

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.