Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me,so natural to my way of being and thinking.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.