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'KEEFFENobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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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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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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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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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 feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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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The days you work are the best days.
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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 hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
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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 decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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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