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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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Away Decide New Start Strip Taught
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 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 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
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
The days you work are the best days.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Day Work Vest
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Believe Like Rather Something
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
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Flower Friend Nobody Really See Small Take Time
Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue – that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyway Bleach Blue Destruction Finish Man Most Sun Wonderful
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
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
I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Cheaper Flower Hate Model Move Paint
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
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Color Found Other Say Shape Thing Way Word
I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Apart Enjoy General Look Much Paint Too

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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