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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

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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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Feel Something Unexplored Women
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
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
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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Better Fragment Make Paint Seem Statement Thing Well Whole
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 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
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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The days you work are the best days.
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Day Work Vest
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.
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Aware Closely Concerned Help Individual Paint People Themselves
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
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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Away Decide New Start Strip Taught
One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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Country Felt Paint Rather
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
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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All Away Country Please Quite Untouch Work
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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