Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

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

Georgia O'Keeffe

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• One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Early

• Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Life
  • Live
  • Experience

• If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Thinking
  • Body
  • New York

• Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Ambition
  • Achievement

• As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Time
  • Actor

• I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Home
  • Change
  • Year

• The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Like
  • Baseball
  • Sound

• I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Been

• I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Man
  • Rather
  • Denmark

• Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • History
  • Beginning
  • Creative

• Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Lives
  • Very
  • Uninteresting

• Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Music
  • Song
  • Powerful

• Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on!

  

  BeBe Winans
  • True
  • Movie
  • Dream

• Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House

• The Sin Washer had died centuries ago, and His legacy seemed often to be in the accumulation of connections and power more than the distribution of emotional or spiritual ease. She kept that thought to herself. Wisdom came in many forms, and silence was often the most useful.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • She
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Bad
  • Freedom
  • Words

• Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

  

  Arnold J. Toynbee
  • Desire
  • Compassion

• If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Words

• A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Desire
  • Liberty
  • Flirting

• Why not just have fun with clothes? We should be more light-hearted about how we dress, how we look. If you experiment, you can go wrong, clearly; but you can have a wonderful time doing it!

  

  Orla Brady
  • Time
  • Why
  • Fun

• For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • World
  • Composed
  • Mob

• Courage, mon ami, le diable est mort! / Take courage, my friend, the devil is dead!

  

  Charles Reade
  • Friend
  • Courage
  • Devil

• To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

  

  Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Courage
  • Create
  • Arts