229 Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

He was nothing but a tool. ... He had no thought, no part in the painting, except that he could do what I told him to do.

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.

Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.

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.

You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.

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.

Since I cannot sing, I paint.