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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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Color Found Other Say Shape Thing Way Word
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Bench Branch Lay Often Particular Storm Tree Trunk
I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Apart Enjoy General Look Much Paint Too
The days you work are the best days.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Day Work Vest
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Above Country Go Necessary One Say Work
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Down Head Idea Natural Occur Shape Taught Thing Think
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Away Decide New Start Strip Taught
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Beauty Could Decide Flower Huge Ignore Paint Scale
To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Art Courage Create One World
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Better Fragment Make Paint Seem Statement Thing Well Whole
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Accomplish Declare Whatever Write
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Appreciate Flower Nobody Paint Perfect Really Reflect Small Time
I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Cheaper Flower Hate Model Move Paint
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Around City Else Look Most People Rush Someone Want Whether World
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Head Myself Near Occur Put Shape Thing Think Way Won
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyway Bleach Blue Destruction Finish Man Most Sun Wonderful

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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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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