I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Source: On the discovery that led to an approach synonymous with her name the magnifying of flowers, bones and other aspects of nature, Reader's Digest, May 79
-- Georgia O'Keeffe, (Nov 15 1887-1986), US painter; She was one of the founders of Modernism and best known for Black Iris, 1926 and Cow's Skull, 1931.