Georgia O'Keeffe Says
I'm reading Full Bloom by Hunter Drohojowska-Philip, which is a new-ish biography of Georgia O'Keefe. It has some neato quotes.
On creativity:
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you. Catching, crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life--only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead--that you must always keep working to grasp.
On being a woman and an artist and learning to listen to yourself:
I grew up pretty much as everybody else grows up and one day seven years ago found myself saying to myself--I can't live where I want to--I can't go where I want to--I cna't do what I want to--I can't even say what I want to--. School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. i decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as i wanted to and say waht I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself--that was nobody's business but my own. So these paintings and drawings happened and many others that are not here--I foudn that I could say things with color and shapes that I coudln't say in any other way--things that I had not words for. Some of the wise men say it is not painting, some of them say it is. Art or not art--they disagree.