I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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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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 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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I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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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When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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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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The days you work are the best days.
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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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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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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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