“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.”
"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
Love
"Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous."
- Georgia O'Keeffe
Happiness
"To create one’s own world in any of the arts takes courage."
- Georgia O'Keeffe
Courage
"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
Courage
"Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing."
- Georgia O'Keeffe
Courage
"She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within."
- Beauty and the Beast
Awareness
"We should never judge someone based on their appearance."
- Beauty and the Beast
Awareness
"Beauty and ugliness are merely subjective labels. What matters is who we are inside."
- Beauty and the Beast
Awareness
"When we see beyond appearances, we discover the true essence of a person."
- Beauty and the Beast
Awareness
"Worry is a misuse of imagination."
Awareness