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.
Source: Quoted in: Chicago Evening Post (2 March 1926; repr. in Laurie Lisle, Portrait of an Artist, 1986).
-- 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.