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Georgia O'Keeffe
When you take...
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.
Before I put...
Before I put a brush to canvas, I question, Is this mine? . . . Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired...
I had to...
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
I hate flowers...
I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
I don't very...
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them...
I decided that...
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its...
Nobody sees a...
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time -- like to have a friend takes...
Singing has always...
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think...
I am trying...
I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.
Where I was...
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...
Most people in...
Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want...
I don't much...
I don't much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them...
[Sun-bleached bones] were...
[Sun-bleached bones] were most wonderful against the blue -- that blue that will always be there as it is now after...
One can not...
One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like...
I get out...
I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it -- how good or...