Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me what I should write and how I would write it.

Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

I love creating things that come from my gut and my soul.

I base everything on my instinctual approach. There's something very satisfying in that creativity, and it's a bit like an infant drawing.

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them.

We spend most of our lives cutting down our ambitions because the world has told us to think small. Dreams express what your soul is telling you, so as crazy as your dream might seem - even to you - I don't care: You have to let that out.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

When I don't know what to do with a character, that's when I say yes to it. When it's far away from the way I am, the way I feel or the way I think, that's when it's more attractive.

My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.

I think the arts are absolutely necessary for children to be creative and express themselves because every child is different.