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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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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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 believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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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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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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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 hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
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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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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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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 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’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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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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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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