One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI 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.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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.
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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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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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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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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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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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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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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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 decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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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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When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
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