Georgia O'Keeffe
“I hate flowers—I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.”
“I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.”
“It takes time to see.”
“Nobody sees a flower—really—it is so small; we haven’t time, and to see takes time—like to have a friend takes time.”
“To create one’s own world in any of the arts takes courage.”
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant—there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.”
“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.”
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for.”