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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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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The days you work are the best days.
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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 feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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 decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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 believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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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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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 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 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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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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Apart Enjoy General Look Much Paint Too
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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