I have already settled it for myself, so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
—Georgia O’Keeffe
Topics: Criticism
I’ve been afraid every single day of my life, but I’ve gone ahead and done it anyway.
—Georgia O’Keeffe
Topics: Life, Sin
One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
—Georgia O’Keeffe
Topics: America
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
—Georgia O’Keeffe
Topics: Flowers
The days you work are the best days
—Georgia O’Keeffe
Topics: Work
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
—Georgia O’Keeffe
Topics: The Artist, Singing
I hate flowers—I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
—Georgia O’Keeffe
Topics: Flowers
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
—Georgia O’Keeffe
Topics: Achievement, Success & Failure
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.
—Georgia O’Keeffe
Topics: Thinking
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.
—Georgia O’Keeffe
Topics: Friend, Body
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B. B. King American Blues Musician
Hyman G. Rickover American Admiral
Walter H. Annenberg American Publisher
Brooke Astor American Writer, Philanthropist
Viggo Mortensen Danish American Actor
Sandra Day O’Connor American Jurist