Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
American - Artist November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986

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.
Georgia O'Keeffe

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Georgia O'Keeffe

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
Georgia O'Keeffe

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Georgia O'Keeffe

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

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
Georgia O'Keeffe

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
Georgia O'Keeffe

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Georgia O'Keeffe

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.
Georgia O'Keeffe

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

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.
Georgia O'Keeffe

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
Georgia O'Keeffe

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
Georgia O'Keeffe

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.
Georgia O'Keeffe

The days you work are the best days.
Georgia O'Keeffe

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.
Georgia O'Keeffe

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.
Georgia O'Keeffe

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

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.
Georgia O'Keeffe

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.
Georgia O'Keeffe

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
Georgia O'Keeffe

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.
Georgia O'Keeffe


Luke Rhinehart Quotes
American - Writer Born: November 15, 1932

Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom they try to convert.
Luke Rhinehart

In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book.
Luke Rhinehart

Part of the philosophy of 'The Dice Man' is that you have got to be laughing at yourself at every moment and be free of yourself at every moment.
Luke Rhinehart

'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.
Luke Rhinehart

When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six months I told my mother she was damned to hell. That wasn't much fun. I abandoned it.
Luke Rhinehart

The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.
Luke Rhinehart

I am George Cockcroft. But when I come to England or Europe, where the name Luke Rhinehart is better known, then I use that name.
Luke Rhinehart


Daniel Pinkwater Quotes
Author Born: November 15, 1941

Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think.
Daniel Pinkwater

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.
Daniel Pinkwater

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.
Daniel Pinkwater

Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!
Daniel Pinkwater

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.
Daniel Pinkwater

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.
Daniel Pinkwater

I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.
Daniel Pinkwater

Hoboken is a neat place.
Daniel Pinkwater

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?
Daniel Pinkwater

Mr. Breton didn't know about location, location, location.
Daniel Pinkwater

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.
Daniel Pinkwater

Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
Daniel Pinkwater