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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

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
The days you work are the best days.
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Day Work Vest
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 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’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
Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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Free Mark Paper Picture Speech Suppose Together
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 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.
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Around City Else Look Most People Rush Someone Want Whether World
One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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Country Felt Paint Rather
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
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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Beauty Could Decide Flower Huge Ignore Paint Scale
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.
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Anyone Head Myself Near Occur Put Shape Thing Think Way Won
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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Feel Something Unexplored Women
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.
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Above Country Go Necessary One Say Work
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
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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Away Decide New Start Strip Taught

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