The days you work are the best days.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEThe days you work are the best days.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEOne can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEIt was all so far away – there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEOne can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFESun-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'KEEFFEI’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'KEEFFEI have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEAnyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI 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'KEEFFEYou get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEWhen you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE