Georgia O'Keeffe

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree. ”

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare. ”

One 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. ”

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 was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it. ”

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. ”

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could. ”

I said to myself, I 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. ”

I 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. ”

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. ”