I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway. Georgia O'Keeffe More Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe More Quotes From Georgia O'Keeffe When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs. Georgia O'Keeffe erotic people thinking 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. Georgia O'Keeffe details confusing real My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me. Georgia O'Keeffe giving-back giving world 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 painting reason running You are one of my nicest thoughts. Georgia O'Keeffe One works because I suppose it is the most interesting thing one knows to do. The days one works are the best days. On the other days one is hurrying through the other things one imagines one has to do to keep one's life going. Georgia O'Keeffe imagine knows interesting Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp. Georgia O'Keeffe catching vision important I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore. Georgia O'Keeffe georgia women flower To make your unknown known - that's the important thing. Georgia O'Keeffe important-things crafts important I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness. Georgia O'Keeffe busy happiness ideas Dearest - my body is simply crazy with wanting you - If you don't come tomorrow - I don't see how I can wait for you - I wonder if your body wants mine the way mine wants yours - the kisses - the hotness - the wetness - all melting together - the being held so tight that it hurts - the strangle and the struggle. Georgia O'Keeffe crazy hurt struggle Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what they report is the degree of their experiences. Intellect Georgia O'Keeffe intuition artist wish 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 fragments flower art I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it-how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that, the critics can write what they please. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. Georgia O'Keeffe criticism mind writing I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself? Georgia O'Keeffe enough matter thinking 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 paint flower way It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky. Georgia O'Keeffe sky men country My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around. Georgia O'Keeffe quilts light memories Imagination makes you see all sorts of things. Georgia O'Keeffe imagination The days you work are the best days. Georgia O'Keeffe flower inspirational art
