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'KEEFFEIt 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 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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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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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 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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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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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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The days you work are the best days.
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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.
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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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Singing 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.
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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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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