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'KEEFFESun-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.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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 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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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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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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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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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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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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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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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The days you work are the best days.
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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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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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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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