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1 " I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. "
― Georgia O'Keeffe
2 " 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 , Georgia O'Keeffe
3 " It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve. "
4 " I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for. "
5 " 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. "
6 " My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around. "
7 " Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it’s all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself. "
8 " Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things. "
9 " The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill. "
― Georgia O'Keeffe , Some Memories of Drawings
10 " I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore. "
11 " 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. "
12 " I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. "
13 " 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. "
14 " To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. "
15 " If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment. "
16 " I've always been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I've never let it stop me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. "
17 " I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree. "
18 " My friend Doris Bry says now that I’ve ruined her spelling because I misspell with such confidence. "
― Georgia O'Keeffe ,
19 " Frieda was very special,” O’Keeffe recalls. “I can remember very clearly the first time I ever saw her, standing in a doorway, with her hair all frizzed out, wearing a cheap red calico dress that looked as though she’d just wiped out the frying pan with it. She was not thin, and not young, but there was something radiant and wonderful about her. "
20 " I never did learn to spell. My friend Doris Bry says now that I’ve ruined her spelling because I misspell with such confidence. "
