Sarah Greenough

“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