229 Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I’d rather be doing something I wanted to do. I’d walk it again.

All the earth colours of the painter’s palette are out there in the many miles of badlands...

I don’t know what Art is but I know some things it isn’t when I see them.

Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower – and what is my experience if it is not the color?

So I said to myself-I’ll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.

Someone else’s vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it ’cause in the end it’s all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.

I’ve been afraid every single day of my life, but I’ve gone ahead and done it anyway.

I do not like the idea of happiness – it is too momentary – I would say that I was always busy and interested in something – interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.

My first memory is of light – the brightness of light – light all around.