Can't Live Where I Want To, Paint As I Wanted To, Georgia O'Keeffe

“One day I found myself saying to myself, 'I can't live where 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'Keeffe

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 61.

Saying to Myself, Paint as I Wanted to, Georgia O'Keeffe

“One day I found myself saying to myself, 'I can't live where 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'Keeffe, doyenne of the painted desert. Convent-educated O'Keeffe also didn't enjoy hearing about the sexual symbolism of her work, insisting that any putative crotch imagery was nothing but a crock.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 161.