To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.

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It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
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Nobody Perfect Really Reflect Small
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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Friend Nobody Really See Small Take
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
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Copy
To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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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.

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

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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Branch Lay Often Particular Trunk
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 don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
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Apart Enjoy General Much Too
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 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 Thing Way Word
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.

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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.
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Keep Me Single Terrified Verb
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.

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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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Anyone Like Rather Something
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

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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All Untouch
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

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.
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Anyway Bleach Blue Destruction Most
The days you work are the best days.

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The days you work are the best days.
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Day Work Vest
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 painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
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Make Seem Statement Thing Well Whole
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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Feel Something Unexplored
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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New Taught
Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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Free Mark Together

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