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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
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
— Jerry Saltz
As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order.
— Shaquille O'Neal
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
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Fill a space in a beautiful way.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
O ill-starred wench! Pale as your smock!
— William Shakespeare
When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
To create one's own world takes courage.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
The primary task for the executive targeting first 100 days success is to set out the right strategic priorities and stay focused on them.
— Niamh O'Keeffe
I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Remember what you won't get if you don't mind, her grandfather remarked.
— Flannery O'Connor
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way ... things I had no words for.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
One cannot 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
The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I keep thinking: 'Georgia O'Keeffe wouldn't have had Botox.'
— Gloria Steinem
I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands ...
— Georgia O'Keeffe
We stood surrounded by orchids that would make Georgia O'Keeffe teary-eyed and most lesbians distracted.
— Eva Indigo
A God you understood would be less than yourself.
— Flannery O'Connor
Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
The days you work are the best days.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.
— Alec Baldwin
If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?
— Georgia O'Keeffe
You are one of my nicest thoughts.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I've been terrified my whole life but it never kept me from doing a single thing.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
If only people were trees ... I might like them better.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.
— Yayoi Kusama
Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Since I cannot sing, I paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I wish so much to go that I almost wish I had never been there.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I have not worked at all ... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that is the way it is.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I decided to accept as true my own thinking.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !
— William Shakespeare
Run equals die. Stay equals die. So before we go all O.K. Corral on this, let's consider the third option: We blow it up.
— Rick Yancey
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
My first memory is of light the brightness of light
light all around. — Georgia O'Keeffe
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
A flower is relatively small ... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
— Maureen O'Hara
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie ... Would that be intimidating?
— Sandra Day O'Connor
Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.
— Louis O. Kelso
Why are you doing this?
— Morrissey
O heart, we are old;The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. — William Butler Yeats
America is the world's policeman, all right a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a domestic disturbance. — P. J. O'Rourke
The train rolled right through dinner and over the sunset and around ten o'clock and into a nap and out the next day...
— Lindsay Mattick
My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
