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'KEEFFESun-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'KEEFFEYou get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEWhen you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFETo create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEMarks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFESinging 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'KEEFFEIt 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'KEEFFEOne can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI 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'KEEFFEOne 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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFENobody 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'KEEFFEI’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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