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'KEEFFEI 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.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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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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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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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The days you work are the best days.
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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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When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
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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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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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 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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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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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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