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I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Away Decide New Start Strip Taught
I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Bench Branch Lay Often Particular Storm Tree Trunk
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Head Myself Near Occur Put Shape Thing Think Way Won
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Appreciate Flower Nobody Paint Perfect Really Reflect Small Time
It was all so far away – there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

All Away Country Please Quite Untouch Work
I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Aware Closely Concerned Help Individual Paint People Themselves
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Copy Create Equivalent Look
I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Down Head Idea Natural Occur Shape Taught Thing Think
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Flower Friend Nobody Really See Small Take Time
I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Apart Enjoy General Look Much Paint Too
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Believe Like Rather Something
One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Above Country Go Necessary One Say Work
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Color Found Other Say Shape Thing Way Word
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Flower Hand Look Moment Really When World
Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Country Cross Get Simply
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Beauty Could Decide Flower Huge Ignore Paint Scale

I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.

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