...there are things we want to say
-but saying them is pretty nervy-What reason have I for getting the notion that I want to say something and must say it. -

Of course, marks on paper are free- free speech- press- pictures all go together I suppose- but I was just feeling rather downcast about it- and it is so nice to feel I said something to you and to Stieglitz. I wonder what I said- I wonder if any of you got what I tried to say-

... it makes me want to keep on- and I had almost decided it was a fool's game.

-Georgia O'Keeffe writing to her friend Anita on Stieglitz's reaction to her work