Quotes by Georgia O'Keefe

One day I found myself saying to myself...  I can't live where I want to…  I can't go where I want to...  I can't do what I want to.  I can't even say what I want to.  I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted, and that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself.

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.

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

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 find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.

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

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at, - not copy it.

Still - in a way - nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small - we haven't the time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.