229 Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are.

Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.

The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.

Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man? ...I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me.

I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands...