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The days you work are the best days.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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
The days you work are the best days.
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Day Work Vest
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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Accomplish Declare Whatever Write
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
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Copy Create Equivalent Look
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
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Flower Hand Look Moment Really When World
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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Away Decide New Start Strip Taught
Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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Free Mark Paper Picture Speech Suppose Together
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.
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Anyone Head Myself Near Occur Put Shape Thing Think Way Won
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
Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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Anyone Country Cross Get Simply
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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Bench Branch Lay Often Particular Storm Tree Trunk
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
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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Anyway Bleach Blue Destruction Finish Man Most Sun Wonderful
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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Feel Something Unexplored Women
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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Aware Closely Concerned Help Individual Paint People Themselves
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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Appreciate Flower Nobody Paint Perfect Really Reflect Small Time

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