Georgia O'Keeffe

I have always been interested in the way the wind carves the land. It is so powerful and yet so gentle.

I have always been interested in the way the plants grow in the desert. They are so resilient.

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

I have been with my flowers all day and I am tired.

I have always been a little afraid of Big Cities.

I found that I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn't say any other way—things I had no words for.

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.

I don't particularly like flowers. I paint them because they are cheaper than models and they don't move.

I wish people would not try to find out what I had to eat, or what I wear, or what I think about when I am not working.

Men are always trying to make me into a woman. But I don't want to be a woman. I want to be a painter.

I feel there is something in my life that is not complete. Something I want to do and I don't know what it is.

I have been so busy getting ready to be famous that I haven't had time to be famous.

I often think old women are very beautiful, but they do not know it.

I hate flowers. I paint them because they're there.

I believe that the less one thinks about oneself, the better off one is.

I wish I could be rid of the thought that I am a woman.

I feel that I should be a little more of a lady.

I have been working like a dog.

I don't want to be famous. I just want to be left alone.

I have to do something that I have never done before.