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Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."
Art

"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty."
Nature

"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."
Art

"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare."

"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."

"I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move."

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. 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."

"I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore."

"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."

"Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose."

"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint."

"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."
Art

"To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage."

"The days you work are the best days."

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