I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
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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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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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It was all so far away – there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
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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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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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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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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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The days you work are the best days.
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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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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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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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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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