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.Georgia O'Keeffe

The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.

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

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

I'm getting to like you so tremendously that it sometimes scares me.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

My friend Doris Bry says now that I’ve ruined her spelling because I misspell with such confidence.

Frieda was very special,” O’Keeffe recalls. “I can remember very clearly the first time I ever saw her, standing in a doorway, with her hair all frizzed out, wearing a cheap red calico dress that looked as though she’d just wiped out the frying pan with it. She was not thin, and not young, but there was something radiant and wonderful about her.