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'KEEFFEGeorgia O’Keeffe Quotes
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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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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’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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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
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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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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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