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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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Head Myself Near Occur Put Shape Thing Think Way Won
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 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
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
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
To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Art Courage Create One World
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 feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Feel Something Unexplored Women
The days you work are the best days.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Day Work Vest
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Better Fragment Make Paint Seem Statement Thing Well Whole
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
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Beauty Could Decide Flower Huge Ignore Paint Scale
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
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
One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Country Felt Paint Rather

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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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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