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Georgia O Keeffe Inspirational Quotes (89)

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I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.
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I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
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I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.
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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.
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I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.
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I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
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I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.
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In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go out and watch it again. I draw some and there is a little painting and so the days go by.
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I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.
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Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.
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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.
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The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.
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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.
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I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.
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When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone.
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We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)
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I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.
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Interest is the most important thing in life happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.
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Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp.
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Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
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Fill a space in a beautiful way.
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I long ago came to the conclusion that even if I could put down accurately the thing I saw and enjoyed, it would not give the observer the kind of feeling it gave me. I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at-not copy it.
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I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.
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You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.
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