Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.

I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'

What I'm good at is making art.

I don't admit that a woman draws that well!

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

I don't know why there is a discrimination between women and men entrepreneurs. Those who are doing their job should just be seen as professionals and not women or men.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

I feel extremely fortunate that I can be a fighter pilot and not a female fighter pilot.

I was no good at anything else at school. But I was good at one thing, which was creativity.

For some reason, people don't want to see a girl onstage. Whether it's a girl or a guy, if you like the music, who cares?

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

Art is sexless; - good work is eternal, no matter whether it is man or woman who has accomplished it. ... Ah, but the world will never own woman's work to be great even if it be so, because men give the verdict, and man's praise is for himself and his own achievements always.

I think that there's a great disrespect for women under this administration, led by the president Trump. Not only did the world discover what he said about grabbing women by their private parts, but just recently the president stepped forward to defend Bill O'Reilly after it was unveiled that O'Reilly had paid out millions of dollars for sexual harassment.

Male comics are always coming up to me and they're like 'Hey Natasha. Don't you think you're a little attractive to be a comedian?' and I'm like 'Don't you think you're a little ugly to be talking to me?'

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.

You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn't doing anyone any favors, least of all you. Insulting a woman's looks when they have nothing to do with the issue at hand implies a lack of comprehension on your part, an inability to engage in high-level thinking. You may think she's ugly, but everyone else thinks you're an idiot.

I feel bad that people think that "feminism" is a dirty word. I don't understand that at all, I'm proud to be labeled a feminist. I consider myself a person who has throughout my entire life stood up for myself. It's never been my ambition to be someone who takes a backseat to anything. I'm not a male basher at all. I divide people into assholes and non-assholes, and that's genderless. I encounter sexism everyday.

I remember my friends at primary and secondary school admiring my work and even paying me money for some of my pieces.

I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.