Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

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.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

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. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

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.