I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEIt was all so far away – there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEYou get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI 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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI 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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI 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'KEEFFEI don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEI decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEOne 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 believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEMarks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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