The days you work are the best days.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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 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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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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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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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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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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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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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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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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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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