Tag: Georgia O’Keeffe
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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.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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The days you work are the best days.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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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
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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
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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.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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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
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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.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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Anyone who doesn’t feel the crosses simply doesn’t get that country.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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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.
Georgia O’Keeffe