10/31/2025
"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life," she once said, "and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."
Georgia O'Keeffe didn't paint flowers to be pretty. She painted them to demand attention. She didn't move to the desert to escape—she moved there to see more clearly. She didn't reject the art world's rules—she simply walked so far past them that the rules couldn't reach her anymore.
Every woman who creates without asking permission. Every artist who paints what they see instead of what they're told to see. Every person who chooses solitude over compromise. They're walking a path Georgia O'Keeffe cleared by refusing to be anything other than exactly herself.
She painted flowers six feet tall. She lived to 98. And she never, ever explained herself to anyone.
That's not rebellion. That's freedom.
