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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

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
To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Art Courage Create One World
One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Country Felt Paint Rather
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Flower Friend Nobody Really See Small Take Time
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
I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Cheaper Flower Hate Model Move Paint
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 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 Down Head Idea Natural Occur Shape Taught Thing Think
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 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 feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Feel Something Unexplored Women
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Away Decide New Start Strip Taught
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Appreciate Flower Nobody Paint Perfect Really Reflect Small Time
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Absolute Keep Life Me Single Terrified Verb Want
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Beauty Could Decide Flower Huge Ignore Paint Scale
Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Country Cross Get Simply

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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