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.
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 decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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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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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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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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 had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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The days you work are the best days.
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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 feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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 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.
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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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