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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI 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.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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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 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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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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I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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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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 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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