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When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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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

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

— 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 all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased. ↗

— 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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