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 More Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe More Quotes From Georgia O'Keeffe You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare. Georgia O'Keeffe motivation dream inspirational Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished. Georgia O'Keeffe sun blue men That nervous energy that makes people like you and I want and go after everything in the world - bump our heads on all the hard walls and scratch our hands on all the briars - but it makes living great - doesn't it - I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all and a lot of it too Georgia O'Keeffe wall ambition sweet My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun shining hot on it... It seems I would rather feel starkly empty than let any thing be planted that cannot be tended to the fullest possibility of its growth. Georgia O'Keeffe growth shining mind In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go out and watch it again. I draw some and there is a little painting and so the days go by. Georgia O'Keeffe desert littles watches Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary. Georgia O'Keeffe rocks ideas thinking I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then. Georgia O'Keeffe tree people thinking There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces. Georgia O'Keeffe lakes perfect tree I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily. Georgia O'Keeffe track long ideas You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't. Georgia O'Keeffe flower writing thinking A flower touches everyone's heart. Georgia O'Keeffe nature flower heart I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit. Georgia O'Keeffe taught use people I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life. Georgia O'Keeffe everyday ideas art I long ago came to the conclusion that even if I could put down accurately the thing I saw and enjoyed, it would not give the observer the kind of feeling it gave me. I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at-not copy it. Georgia O'Keeffe long-ago giving art 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 understanding feelings trying Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint. Georgia O'Keeffe flower mean thinking I always have a curious sort of feeling about some of my things - I hate to show them - I am perfectly inconsistent about it - I am afraid people won't understand - and I hope they won't - and am afraid they will. Georgia O'Keeffe hate feelings people I never knew [Alfred Stieglitz] to make a trip anywhere to photograph. His eye was in him, and he used it on anything that was nearby. Maybe that way he was always photographing himself. Georgia O'Keeffe eye photograph way Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. Georgia O'Keeffe voice expression mean The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words. Georgia O'Keeffe definite shapes color
