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
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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
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.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
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.
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.
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.
The days you work are the best days.
To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. 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 to or not.
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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