Sarah Greenough > Quotes

“Living is experimenting. — And if I do experiment it is with a passion at white heat — experiment not in cold blood — just mind & body — heart — with All of Me. And what is the experiment? — You know what it is as well as I do. — You yearn for someone to understand every heartbeat of yours — to take every heartbeat — every thought — conscious — & otherwise — for what they are. — And you well know no one can understand so fully — but some come nearer to it than others — some very near — The yearn goes out — whether you wish it or not — to others who are feeling as you do.”
― Sarah Greenough, My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

“What Is Art?150 I’m beginning to think that maybe I’m exceedingly vulgar — and the funny thing about it is — I don’t understand — I get the shapes in my head — can never make them exactly like I want to — but there is a fascination about trying — And then too — there is the delicious probability that I don’t know anything about what Art is — So it’s fun to make the stuff —”
― Sarah Greenough, My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

“I think the best way I can tell it to you is — that last night I loved the starlight — the dark — the wind and the miles and miles of the thin strip of dark that is land — It was wonderfully big — and dark and starlight and night moving —”
― Sarah Greenough, My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

“All living seems to be changed — It’s as though the sky will never be clear again —”
― Sarah Greenough, My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

“There is so much more space between the ground and the sky out here it is tremendous — I want to stay — I’ve wanted to stop most every station —”
― Sarah Greenough, My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

“I’m glad that your work is at 291 — when I’m with it it seems to prop me up — makes me forget so much that is hideous — and a deep reverence for something very wonderful invariably over comes me — That’s what you give me. The place breathes peace & space — human throb — a great yearning — a great closeness —”
― Sarah Greenough, My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933