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I said to myself, 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. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#being #down #hasn #head #i

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. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#always #cannot #expression #i #i think

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#anything #believe #done #else #had

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#apart #enjoy #general #i #know

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#better #could #fragments #i #make

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. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#could #exquisite #flower #had #i

Next, in importance to books are their titles. ↗

— Frank Crane

#importance #next #their #titles

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. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#against #always #blue #bones #destruction

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#declare #get #whatever #willing #you

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people. ↗

— Jean O'Leary

#about #eliminate #essence #gay #going