I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
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 feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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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 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 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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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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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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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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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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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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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