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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEMarks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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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I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
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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 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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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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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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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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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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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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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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 who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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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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