Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
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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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Author Details:
Type:
Artist Quotes
Category:
American Artist Quotes
Date of Birth:
November 15, 1887
Date of Death:
March 6, 1986
Nationality:
American
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Select Georgia O'Keeffe Quotations:
The days you work are the best days.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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
Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.
Georgia O'Keeffe
One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
Georgia O'Keeffe
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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Quote Keywords:

Aware,
Closely,
Concerned,
Helped,
Individuality,
Know,
Most,
Myself,
Now,
Own,
Paint,
Say,
See,
Their,
Themselves,
Want
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Aware,
Closely,
Concerned,
Helped,
Individuality,
Know,
Most,
Myself,
Now,
Own,
Paint,
Say,
See,
Their,
Themselves,
Want
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All Georgia O'Keeffe Quotations:
Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses...
I believe I would rather have...
I decided that if I could...
I decided to start anew, to...
I don't very much enjoy looking...
I feel there is something unexplored...
I found I could say things...
I had to create an equivalent...
I hate flowers - I paint them...
I have things in my head...
I know now that most people...
I often lay on that bench...
I often painted fragments of things...
I said to myself, I have...
I've been absolutely terrified every moment...
It was all so far away...
It was in the 1920s, when...
Marks on paper are free - free...
Nobody sees a flower really; it...
One can not be an American...
One can't paint New York as...
Singing has always seemed to me...
Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful...
The days you work are the...
To create one's world in any...
When you take a flower in...
You get whatever accomplishment you are...
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