Tag: Georgia O’Keeffe
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I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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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.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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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.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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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.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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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.
Georgia O’Keeffe