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'KEEFFEAnyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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.
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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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It was all so far away – there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
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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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I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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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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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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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
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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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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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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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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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