229 Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

One works because I suppose it is the most interesting thing one knows to do. The days one works are the best days. On the other days one is hurrying through the other things one imagines one has to do to keep one’s life going...

Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.

I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It’s like getting acquainted with a person, and I don’t get acquainted easily.

I’m glad I want everything in the world – good and bad – bitter and sweet – I want it all.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.

It always seems to me that so few people live – they just seem to exist and I don’t see any reason why we shouldn’t live always – til we die physically...

Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least.

Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.

I find that I have painted my life – things happening in my life – without knowing.