Flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free . . .

"I have already settled it for myself, so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of yourself. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself."

Georgia O'Keeffe

Photo: Chimney Rock and The Pedernal, near O'Keeffe's house, Ghost Ranch, NM, May 25, 2015