The days you work are the best days.
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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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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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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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 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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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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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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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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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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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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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I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
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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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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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