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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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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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I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
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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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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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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When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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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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 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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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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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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