229 Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

I seem to be hunting for something of myself out there – something in myself that will give me a symbol for all this – a symbol for the sense of life I get out here –.

As one chooses between the country and the human being, the country becomes much more wonderful.

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.

I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

There’s something about black. You feel hidden away in it.

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they’re really thinking about their own affairs.

When I look over the photographs Stieglitz took of me-some of them more than sixty years ago-I wonder who that person is. It is as if in my one life I have lived many lives. If the person in the photographs were living in this world today, she would be quite a different person-but it doesn’t matter-Stieglitz photographed her then.

Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn’t be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?

I don’t see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn’t it enough just to express yourself?