You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI 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.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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 had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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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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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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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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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The days you work are the best days.
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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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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’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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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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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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