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'KEEFFEWhen you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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The days you work are the best days.
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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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When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
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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.
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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 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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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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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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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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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 hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
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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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