One can not be an American ... by Georgia O'Keeffe, an American Artist

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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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Georgia O'Keeffe

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Name: Georgia O'Keeffe

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Nov 15, 1887

Date of Death: Mar 6, 1986

Profession: Artist

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

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The days you work are the best days.

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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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