I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFENobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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 decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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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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The days you work are the best days.
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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.
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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 don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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 to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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.
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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 had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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