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'KEEFFEI decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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.
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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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It was all so far away – there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
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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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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 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 believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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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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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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I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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