The days you work are the best days.
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 had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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 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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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 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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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 that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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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 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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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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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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