I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEWhen you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEThe days you work are the best days.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEAnyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFENobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEOne can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEOne 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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFESun-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'KEEFFEI believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI 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'KEEFFETo create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEMarks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
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