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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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Appreciate Flower Nobody Paint Perfect Really Reflect Small Time
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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All Away Country Please Quite Untouch Work
To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Art Courage Create One World
Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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Free Mark Paper Picture Speech Suppose Together
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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Away Decide New Start Strip Taught
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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Anyone Head Myself Near Occur Put Shape Thing Think Way Won
I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
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Cheaper Flower Hate Model Move Paint
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Down Head Idea Natural Occur Shape Taught Thing Think
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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Anyone Believe Like Rather Something
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Absolute Keep Life Me Single Terrified Verb Want
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
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Copy Create Equivalent Look
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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Beauty Could Decide Flower Huge Ignore Paint Scale
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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Apart Enjoy General Look Much Paint Too
One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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Country Felt Paint Rather
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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Around City Else Look Most People Rush Someone Want Whether World
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Feel Something Unexplored Women

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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