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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Copy Create Equivalent Look
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
One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Country Felt Paint Rather
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Feel Something Unexplored Women
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyway Bleach Blue Destruction Finish Man Most Sun Wonderful
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Believe Like Rather Something
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Around City Else Look Most People Rush Someone Want Whether World
The days you work are the best days.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Day Work Vest
Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Country Cross Get Simply
To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Art Courage Create One World
I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Cheaper Flower Hate Model Move Paint
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Aware Closely Concerned Help Individual Paint People Themselves
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Above Country Go Necessary One Say Work
I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Apart Enjoy General Look Much Paint Too
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Better Fragment Make Paint Seem Statement Thing Well Whole
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Away Decide New Start Strip Taught

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