I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
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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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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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 believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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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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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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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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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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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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.
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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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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 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 hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
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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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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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