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Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all. I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: Fill a space in a beautiful way. Fill a space in a beautiful way.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs. When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: To create one's own world takes courage. To create one's own world takes courage.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it. The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me. I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.
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. I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way ... things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: One cannot 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. One cannot 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'Keeffe quotes: The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life. The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters. The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me. I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again. I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it. God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway. I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never! I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then. I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do. I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: To make your unknown known - that's the important thing. To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't. You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well. I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me,so natural to my way of being and thinking. I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me,so natural to my way of being and thinking.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it. I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment. If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know. I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands ... All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands ...
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are. Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: The days you work are the best days. The days you work are the best days.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint. Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays. Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: You are one of my nicest thoughts. You are one of my nicest thoughts.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know. I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily. I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose. Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it. I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: If only people were trees ... I might like them better. If only people were trees ... I might like them better.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog. It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me. Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I've been terrified my whole life but it never kept me from doing a single thing. I've been terrified my whole life but it never kept me from doing a single thing.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased. 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 quotes: Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country. Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them. I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I wish so much to go that I almost wish I had never been there. I wish so much to go that I almost wish I had never been there.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I have not worked at all ... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that is the way it I have not worked at all ... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that is the way it is.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I decided to accept as true my own thinking. I decided to accept as true my own thinking.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least. Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: Since I cannot sing, I paint. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it. (Life, March 1, 1968) My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it. (Life, March 1, 1968)
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: A flower is relatively small ... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big. A flower is relatively small ... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: My first memory is of light the brightness of light light all around. My first memory is of light
the brightness of light
light all around.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare. You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve. It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could. I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz) We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky. It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier. War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty ... His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty ...
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all? If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected. I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me. My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it. There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate. I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life. I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky. I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing. I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: Imagination makes you see all sorts of things. Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words. The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes: I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

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