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'KEEFFEYou get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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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 decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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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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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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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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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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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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 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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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 believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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