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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Day Work Vest
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
Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Country Cross Get Simply
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
One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Country Felt Paint Rather
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

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

Away Decide New Start Strip Taught
It was all so far away – there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

All Away Country Please Quite Untouch Work
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Around City Else Look Most People Rush Someone Want Whether World
One 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'KEEFFE

Above Country Go Necessary One Say Work
Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Free Mark Paper Picture Speech Suppose Together
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

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