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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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Absolute Keep Life Me Single Terrified Verb Want
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Expression Paint Perfect Seem Since Sing Spontaneous
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
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Copy Create Equivalent Look
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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Color Found Other Say Shape Thing Way Word
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
It was all so far away – there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

All Away Country Please Quite Untouch Work
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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Feel Something Unexplored Women
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
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Anyone Believe Like Rather Something
I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
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Cheaper Flower Hate Model Move Paint
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
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 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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Around City Else Look Most People Rush Someone Want Whether World
To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Art Courage Create One World
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Flower Hand Look Moment Really When World
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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Bench Branch Lay Often Particular Storm Tree Trunk
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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Flower Friend Nobody Really See Small Take Time

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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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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