I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. Georgia O'Keeffe More Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe More Quotes From Georgia O'Keeffe Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man? ...I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me. Georgia O'Keeffe skills men ideas I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own. Georgia O'Keeffe taught shapes ideas Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it. Georgia O'Keeffe effort color thinking I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to. Georgia O'Keeffe fool stupid want I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway. Georgia O'Keeffe done gone life I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint. Georgia O'Keeffe flower people art I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky. Georgia O'Keeffe real want sky I decided to accept as true my own thinking. Georgia O'Keeffe my-own accepting thinking If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all? Georgia O'Keeffe paint originals ifs When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone. Georgia O'Keeffe regret beautiful country I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. Georgia O'Keeffe hate flower art God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it. Georgia O'Keeffe painting mountain artist Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays. Georgia O'Keeffe wind happiness interesting I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it. Georgia O'Keeffe wall imagine imagination 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. Georgia O'Keeffe stars flower past The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty. Georgia O'Keeffe cutting kindness beauty I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I'll make them big, like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they'll have to look at them - and they did. Georgia O'Keeffe flower artist people The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it. Georgia O'Keeffe solitude morning people Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose. Georgia O'Keeffe freedom-of-speech flower together One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella-- --When I had it in my hand it was so small I couldn't believe I had it--but I could feel the intense life--so intense and so tiny-- ...You were like the humming bird to me... And I am rather inclined to feel that you and I know the best part of one another without spending much time together-- --It is not that I fear the knowing-- It is that I am at this moment willing to let you be what you are to me--it is beautiful and pure and very intensely alive. Georgia O'Keeffe beautiful believe hands
