Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

The days you work are the best days.

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.

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

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.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

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.

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

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