I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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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The days you work are the best days.
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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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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.
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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 feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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 decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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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.
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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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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue – that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished.
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