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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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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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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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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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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 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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