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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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

The days you work are the best days.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Day Work Vest
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyway Bleach Blue Destruction Finish Man Most Sun Wonderful
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Aware Closely Concerned Help Individual Paint People Themselves
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Believe Like Rather Something
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Copy Create Equivalent Look
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'KEEFFE

Bench Branch Lay Often Particular Storm Tree Trunk
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Feel Something Unexplored Women
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

Better Fragment Make Paint Seem Statement Thing Well Whole
Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Country Cross Get Simply
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Away Decide New Start Strip Taught
One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Country Felt Paint Rather
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Color Found Other Say Shape Thing Way Word
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Flower Hand Look Moment Really When World
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Accomplish Declare Whatever Write
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Expression Paint Perfect Seem Since Sing Spontaneous
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Head Myself Near Occur Put Shape Thing Think Way Won

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 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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