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

Georgia O'Keeffe

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.
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Bench Branch Lay Often Particular Storm Tree Trunk
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
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Better Fragment Make Paint Seem Statement Thing Well Whole
I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
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Cheaper Flower Hate Model Move Paint
I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
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Apart Enjoy General Look Much Paint Too
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
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Flower Hand Look Moment Really When World
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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Color Found Other Say Shape Thing Way Word
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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Anyone Down Head Idea Natural Occur Shape Taught Thing Think
The days you work are the best days.
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Day Work Vest
To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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Art Courage Create One World
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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Anyone Believe Like Rather Something
Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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Anyone Country Cross Get Simply
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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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.
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Absolute Keep Life Me Single Terrified Verb Want
One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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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.
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Flower Friend Nobody Really See Small Take Time
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.
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Expression Paint Perfect Seem Since Sing Spontaneous

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