Quotes from Georgia O'Keefe

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.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

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.

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

My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.

I decided to accept as true my own thinking.