All 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.
Georgia O'Keeffe in
Art
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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Georgia O'Keeffe in
Nature
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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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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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Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
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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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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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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.
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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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To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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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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