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.

Making your unknown known is the important thing – and keeping the unknown always beyond you – catching – crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life – only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead – that you must always keep working to grasp...

To make your unknown known – that’s the important thing.

War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness – if he had it he wouldn’t be a good soldier.

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.

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 am divided between my man and a life with him – and some thing of the outdoors – of your world – that is in my blood – and that I know I will never get rid of – I have to get along with my divided self the best way I can –.

Filling a space in a beautiful way – that is what art means to me.

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