One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEOne can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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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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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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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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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The days you work are the best days.
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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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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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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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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
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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 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 who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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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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