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 that I wanted to do.
-Georgia O'Keeffe

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
-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. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.
-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 can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.
-Georgia O'Keeffe

To create one's world in any of the arts 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 wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.
-Georgia O'Keeffe