I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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 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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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 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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I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
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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 decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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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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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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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 feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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’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.
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The days you work are the best days.
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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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