I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
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 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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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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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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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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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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 don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
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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 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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The days you work are the best days.
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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 believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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