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Georgia O Keeffe Inspirational Quotes (89)

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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.
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I have not worked at all... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that is the way it is.
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Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified until it can be nothing but abstraction.
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I always have a curious sort of feeling about some of my things - I hate to show them - I am perfectly inconsistent about it - I am afraid people won't understand - and I hope they won't - and am afraid they will.
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I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.
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My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground ... very large white pillows.
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Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.
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I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.
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Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?
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Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.
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There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.
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Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
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Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower - and what is my experience if it is not the color?
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I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
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We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.
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Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.
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