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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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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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 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.
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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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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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When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
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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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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 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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The days you work are the best days.
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Day Work Vest
One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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Country Felt Paint Rather
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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Anyway Bleach Blue Destruction Finish Man Most Sun Wonderful
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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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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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 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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