You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEIt was all so far away – there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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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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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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 believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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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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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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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 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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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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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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