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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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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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Anyone Down Head Idea Natural Occur Shape Taught Thing Think
Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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Free Mark Paper Picture Speech Suppose Together
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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Bench Branch Lay Often Particular Storm Tree Trunk
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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Flower Friend Nobody Really See Small Take Time
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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Above Country Go Necessary One Say Work
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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Absolute Keep Life Me Single Terrified Verb Want
I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
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Cheaper Flower Hate Model Move Paint
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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Anyone Believe Like Rather Something
The days you work are the best days.
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Day Work Vest
Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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Anyone Country Cross Get Simply
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.
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Around City Else Look Most People Rush Someone Want Whether World
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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Anyway Bleach Blue Destruction Finish Man Most Sun Wonderful
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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Feel Something Unexplored Women
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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Color Found Other Say Shape Thing Way Word
To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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Art Courage Create One World
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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Apart Enjoy General Look Much Paint Too

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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