Georgia O'Keeffe

"You were like the hummingbird 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

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

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

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"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."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing.  Making your unknown known is the important thing."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"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."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"To create one’s own world takes courage."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

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

- Georgia O'Keeffe

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

- Georgia O'Keeffe

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

- Georgia O'Keeffe

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

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"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."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"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."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"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."

- Georgia O'Keeffe