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The days you work are the best days.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Expression Paint Perfect Seem Since Sing Spontaneous
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Copy Create Equivalent Look
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyway Bleach Blue Destruction Finish Man Most Sun Wonderful
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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All Away Country Please Quite Untouch Work
Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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Anyone Country Cross Get Simply
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Head Myself Near Occur Put Shape Thing Think Way Won
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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Anyone Down Head Idea Natural Occur Shape Taught Thing Think
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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Away Decide New Start Strip Taught
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Appreciate Flower Nobody Paint Perfect Really Reflect Small Time
The days you work are the best days.
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Day Work Vest
I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
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Cheaper Flower Hate Model Move Paint
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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Apart Enjoy General Look Much Paint Too
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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Absolute Keep Life Me Single Terrified Verb Want
To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Art Courage Create One World
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Aware Closely Concerned Help Individual Paint People Themselves
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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Anyone Believe Like Rather Something

The days you work are the best days.

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