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'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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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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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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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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The days you work are the best days.
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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.
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