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Georgia O'Keeffe's Profile

Brief about Georgia O'Keeffe: By info that we know Georgia O'Keeffe was born at 1970-01-01. And also Georgia O'Keeffe is American Artist.

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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.

Tags: Put, Said, Thinking

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.

Tags: Flower, Small, Time

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Tags: Art, Found, Words

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Tags: Inspirational, Life, Single

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

Tags: Friend, Small, Time

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

Tags: Love, Saying, Work

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

Tags: Courage, Create, Takes

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

Tags: Flowers, Hate, Move

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

Tags: Beauty, Ignore, Nature

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

Tags: Explore, Woman, Women

The days you work are the best days.

Tags: Best, Days, Work

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.

Tags: Give, Someone, Time

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

Tags: Away, Start, Taught

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

Tags: Create, Felt, Looking

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.

Tags: Concerned, Paint, Themselves

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

Tags: Enjoy, General, Looking

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

Tags: Felt, Rather, York

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

Tags: Free, Speech, Together

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.

Tags: After, Cannot, Perfect

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

Tags: Anyone, Country, Simply
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