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.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFEWhen you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
More Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
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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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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
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When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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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 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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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 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 don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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 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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