Georgia O'Keeffe

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

If 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.

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

I hate flowers. I paint them because they are cheaper than models and they don't move.

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to me that they were more mysterious and sometimes more beautiful in their isolation.

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

I am trying to paint what I see, not what I think I see.

Color is my day-long obsession, dream, and delirium.

The great artists of the world are those who really have gone beyond the boundaries of human experience.

I want to be worthy of my painting. I want it to mean something.

Marks on paper are no longer simply marks, but carry the picture we are expecting.

I think of myself as a person who paints, not an artist.

The wind bent the trees and blew the leaves around until it was all a confusion of sound and movement.

I like the intimacy of the desert. It's like a friend who doesn't talk.

You paint from your subject, not from yourself.

I made you take me to the barn and open those sacks when I got home, and I was so excited I cried and didn't know what to do first.

I want to live in a big place where there are lots of things to see and touch.

The men liked to put me down as the little woman. They'd say, 'She paints flowers.' I said to myself, 'I paint flowers, I paint flowers, I paint flowers.'