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'KEEFFEI 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.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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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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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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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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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 feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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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I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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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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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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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 don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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