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.
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.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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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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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 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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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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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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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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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 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 had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
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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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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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