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Georgia O Keeffe Inspirational Quotes (89)

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Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.
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His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty.
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I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.
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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.
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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.
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There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it.
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I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them.
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I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.
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Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
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I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.
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I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint colour I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time.
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I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.
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If only people were trees… I might like them better.
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I decided to accept as true my own thinking.
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That nervous energy that makes people like you and I want and go after everything in the world - bump our heads on all the hard walls and scratch our hands on all the briars - but it makes living great - doesn't it - I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all and a lot of it too
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I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.
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Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what they report is the degree of their experiences. Intellect wishes to arrange — intuition wishes to accept.
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The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.
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One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.
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God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.
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I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.
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It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
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I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.
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