229 Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

Living out here has just meant happiness. Sometimes I think I’m half-mad with love for this place.

A flower touches everyone’s heart.

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn’t a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one’s own world in any of the arts takes courage.

I wish so much to go that I almost wish I had never been there.

To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

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

A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it’s the plains. I guess it’s the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue – that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished.