229 Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

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 have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.

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

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.

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.

Come quickly. You mustn’t miss the dawn. It will never be just like this again.

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

I do not like the idea of happiness -- it is too momentary.

I've always been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I've never let it stop me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.