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'KEEFFEIt 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.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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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.
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I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
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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.
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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
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When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
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I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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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.
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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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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.
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I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
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I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
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I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
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The days you work are the best days.
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