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'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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEOne can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFESun-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'KEEFFEThe days you work are the best days.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEOne 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'KEEFFEIt was all so far away – there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEAnyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFETo create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI’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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFESinging has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEWhen you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI said to myself, 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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