Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

I hate flowers. I paint them because they're cheaper than models, and they don't move.

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

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

I said to myself, 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. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

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 time to look at it--I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.

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

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

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.

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

Still - in a way - nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small - we haven't the time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.