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

~Georgia O'Keeffe

Topics: Any Arts Courage Create Takes World

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

~Georgia O'Keeffe

Topics: Because Cheaper Flowers Hate Models Move Paint Than Them

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

~Georgia O'Keeffe

Topics: About Explore Feel Only Something Unexplored Woman I Feel

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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.

~Georgia O'Keeffe

Topics: Above Bench Branches Fine Lay Looking Night Often Particularly Past Stars Tree Trunk Up

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The days you work are the best days.

~Georgia O'Keeffe

Topics: Best Days Work You

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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

Topics: Away Could Country Far Far Away Feel Pleased Quiet Work

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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

Topics: Appreciate Could Exquisite Flower Had Nobody Painting Perfectly Really Reflect Saw Small Time You 1920S

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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

Topics: Anyone Being Down Head Ideas Like Me Myself Natural Near Occurred Put Said Shapes Taught Them Things Thinking Way

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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

Topics: Because Better Could Fragments Make Often Painted Seemed Statement Than Things Well Whole

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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.

~Georgia O'Keeffe

Topics: After Against Always Blue Bones Destruction Finished Man Most Now Were Will Wonderful

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: November 15th, 1887

Died: March 6th, 1986

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