Georgia O'Keeffe

I decided to start anew — to strip away what I had been taught and to search for myself.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

I don't particularly like the word 'genius.' I don't think it applies to me.

I have been so busy all my life that I have hardly had time to think.

I often think old women are more interesting than old men. I think the old men are just more settled. The old women are still fighting.

I will not paint objects as they are. I will paint them as I see them.

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

I'm not a mystic. I'm just a painter.

I have always been afraid of things that are too sweet.

I never stop working. I never stop looking. I never stop thinking.

I often think I was born too late. I should have been born in the wild west.

I said to myself, 'I'm going to paint what I see, not what I'm supposed to see.'

My world is so full of what I am doing that I don't think about anything else.

I don't paint what I see. I paint what I feel.

I think I have always tried to make the best of what is around me.

I had to get rid of all the things that weren't me.

I don't want to live in a world where I have to be careful about what I say or do.

I am not an intellectual. I am a painter.

I have always been curious about things.

I have always been interested in the things that are not heard.