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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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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When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
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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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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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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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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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.
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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
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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 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 to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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.
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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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