Georgia O'Keeffe first became famous for her paintings of flowers. She said, "Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.  So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers."
Later in her life Georgia O'Keeffe  lived in New Mexico.  She collected the bones of dead animals she found in the desert so that she could study and paint them.  She said  that "something is alive on the desert, even though it is empty and untouchable...and knows no kindness with all it's beauty."   When her eyesight began to fail as she grew older, she could no longer paint.  So she started to work with clay and made pottery.  She continued to try to find beauty in everything around her until she died at the age of 98.  She said, "When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore...unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone."