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Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«I said to myself -- I'll paint what I see -- what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it -- I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.»
Author: Georgia O'Keeffe
(Painter)
«I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.»
«He was nothing but a tool. ... He had no thought, no part in the painting, except that he could do what I told him to do.»
Author: Georgia O'Keeffe
(Painter)
«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.»