#pain

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#cheaper #flowers #hate #i #models

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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One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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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. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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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

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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. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

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Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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