I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.
Georgia O'KeeffeRead
You are one of my nicest thoughts.
Interpretation
This quote expresses deep affection and appreciation for someone special.
Georgia O'Keeffe's quote highlights the notion that thoughts can reflect our feelings and values. By stating that someone is 'one of my nicest thoughts', O'Keeffe conveys that the presence of this person brings joy and beauty to her mind, illustrating how love and admiration can transform our inner landscape.
In practice
This quote can be used as a heartfelt message in a love letter.
I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.
Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?
Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
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