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I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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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
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
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Flower Hand Look Moment Really When World
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 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
To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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Art Courage Create One World
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 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 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
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 to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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Away Decide New Start Strip Taught
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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Expression Paint Perfect Seem Since Sing Spontaneous
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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Anyone Head Myself Near Occur Put Shape Thing Think Way Won
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 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
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

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