You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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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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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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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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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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 decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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.
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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 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 often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
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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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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 feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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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