I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEOne can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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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 found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.
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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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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 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.
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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 decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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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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