Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEOne 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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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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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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I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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 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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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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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.
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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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 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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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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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The days you work are the best days.
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