Georgia O'Keeffe Quote

I have frozen in the mountains in rain and in hail – and slept out under the stars – and cooked and burned on the desert so that riding through Kansas on the train when everyone is wilting about me seems nothing at all for heat – my nose has peeled and all my bones have been sore from riding – I drove with friends through Arizona – Utah – Colorado – New Mexico till the thought of a wheel under me makes me want to hold my head.


pp. 226-227 - 'Letter to Ettie Stettheimer' (August 1929)


I have frozen in the mountains in rain and in hail – and slept out under the stars – and cooked and burned on the desert so that riding through...

I have frozen in the mountains in rain and in hail – and slept out under the stars – and cooked and burned on the desert so that riding through...

I have frozen in the mountains in rain and in hail – and slept out under the stars – and cooked and burned on the desert so that riding through...

I have frozen in the mountains in rain and in hail – and slept out under the stars – and cooked and burned on the desert so that riding through...