+ So I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers. + I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for. + To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage. + 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. http://www.artquotes.net/masters/georgia-okeeffe-quotes.htm