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'KEEFFEI decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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.
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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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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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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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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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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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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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 hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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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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The days you work are the best days.
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