I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown-no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.
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 th… - Georgia O'Keeffe
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 th…
- 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.
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve. - Georgia O'Keeffe
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
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 … - 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 …
Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. - Georgia O'Keeffe
Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. - Georgia O'Keeffe
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me. - Georgia O'Keeffe
Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.
I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interes… - Georgia O'Keeffe
I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interes…
Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and yo… - Georgia O'Keeffe
Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and yo…
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