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Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.”

101. “Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.”

102. “I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “The skulls were there and I could say something with them. To me they are as beautiful as anything I know. To me they are strangely more living than the animals walking around – hair, eyes and all, with the tails switching. The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even though it is vast and empty and untouchable – and knows no kindness with all its beauty.”

103. “The skulls were there and I could say something with them. To me they are as beautiful as anything I know. To me they are strangely more living than the animals walking around – hair, eyes and all, with the tails switching. The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even though it is vast and empty and untouchable – and knows no kindness with all its beauty.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.”

104. “Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least.”

105. “Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “Since I cannot sing, I paint.”

106. “Since I cannot sing, I paint.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “I am divided between my man and a life with him – and some thing of the outdoors – of your world – that is in my blood – and that I know I will never get rid of – I have to get along with my divided self the best way I can –.”

107. “I am divided between my man and a life with him – and some thing of the outdoors – of your world – that is in my blood – and that I know I will never get rid of – I have to get along with my divided self the best way I can –.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.”

108. “I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “I’d been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what’s the use? I couldn’t do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit.”

109. “I’d been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what’s the use? I couldn’t do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “I wish so much to go that I almost wish I had never been there.”

110. “I wish so much to go that I almost wish I had never been there.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can’t take the time to know.”

111. “I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can’t take the time to know.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.”

112. “I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.”

113. “Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don’t know exactly what that means, but I don’t like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.”

114. “I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don’t know exactly what that means, but I don’t like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.”

115. “Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “I seem to be hunting for something of myself out there – something in myself that will give me a symbol for all this – a symbol for the sense of life I get out here –.”

116. “I seem to be hunting for something of myself out there – something in myself that will give me a symbol for all this – a symbol for the sense of life I get out here –.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.”

117. “I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “I don’t really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.”

118. “I don’t really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.”

119. “I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.”

120. “I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “Frieda was very special,” O’Keeffe recalls. “I can remember very clearly the first time I ever saw her, standing in a doorway, with her hair all frizzed out, wearing a cheap red calico dress that looked as though she’d just wiped out the frying pan with it. She was not thin, and not young, but there was something radiant and wonderful about her.”

121. “Frieda was very special,” O’Keeffe recalls. “I can remember very clearly the first time I ever saw her, standing in a doorway, with her hair all frizzed out, wearing a cheap red calico dress that looked as though she’d just wiped out the frying pan with it. She was not thin, and not young, but there was something radiant and wonderful about her.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “My friend Doris Bry says now that I’ve ruined her spelling because I misspell with such confidence.”

122. “My friend Doris Bry says now that I’ve ruined her spelling because I misspell with such confidence.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “When I look over the photographs Stieglitz took of me-some of them more than sixty years ago-I wonder who that person is. It is as if in my one life I have lived many lives. If the person in the photographs were living in this world today, she would be quite a different person-but it doesn’t matter-Stieglitz photographed her then.”

123. “When I look over the photographs Stieglitz took of me-some of them more than sixty years ago-I wonder who that person is. It is as if in my one life I have lived many lives. If the person in the photographs were living in this world today, she would be quite a different person-but it doesn’t matter-Stieglitz photographed her then.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “I’m getting to like you so tremendously that it sometimes scares me.”

124. “I’m getting to like you so tremendously that it sometimes scares me.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.”

125. “I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “Living out here has just meant happiness. Sometimes I think I’m half-mad with love for this place.”

126. “Living out here has just meant happiness. Sometimes I think I’m half-mad with love for this place.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Quote: “To see takes time.”

127. “To see takes time.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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