American - Artist | November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986
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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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
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To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
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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.
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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.
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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
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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.
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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
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I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.
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