229 Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.

If only people were trees… I might like them better.

I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them.

I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.

It is only by selection, by elimination, and by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things.

When you get so that you can’t see, you come to it gradually. And if you didn’t come by it gradually, I guess you’d just kill yourself when you couldn’t see.

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

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

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.