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'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 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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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 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 decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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 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 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 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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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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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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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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