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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

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Flower Hand Look Moment Really When World
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
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Copy Create Equivalent Look
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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Beauty Could Decide Flower Huge Ignore Paint Scale
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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Away Decide New Start Strip Taught
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
I 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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Head Myself Near Occur Put Shape Thing Think Way Won
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
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
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

Appreciate Flower Nobody Paint Perfect Really Reflect Small Time
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
The days you work are the best days.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Day Work Vest
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Feel Something Unexplored Women
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
Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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Anyone Country Cross Get Simply
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
One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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Country Felt Paint Rather

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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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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