229 Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.

I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.

I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I'll make them big, like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they'll have to look at them - and they did.

That nervous energy that makes people like you and I want and go after everything in the world - bump our heads on all the hard walls and scratch our hands on all the briars - but it makes living great - doesn't it - I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all and a lot of it too

I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.

School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself ... I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for.

We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

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