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A flower touches everyone's heart.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Nature, Flower, Heart

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Since I cannot sing, I paint.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Artist, Paint

Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.35, Infobase Publishing

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I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Wall, Imagination, Imagine

Georgia O'Keeffe, Anita Pollitzer (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Art, Ideas, Everyday

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I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Thinking, People, Tree

Katherine Hoffman, Georgia O'Keeffe (1984). “An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe”, Scarecrow Pr

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Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man? ...I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Men, Skills, Ideas

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To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Important, Crafts, Important Things

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When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Thinking, People, Erotic

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The days you work are the best days.

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Inspirational, Art, Flower

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I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?

Georgia O'Keeffe

Thinking, Matter, Enough

Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.45, Infobase Publishing

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The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Running, Painting, Reason

Katherine Hoffman, Georgia O'Keeffe (1984). “An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe”, Scarecrow Pr

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Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.

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Happiness, Wind, Interesting

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Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Life, Travel, Attitude

Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.13, Infobase Publishing

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A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.

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Feelings, Mountain, Today

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God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

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Artist, Mountain, Painting

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Dearest - my body is simply crazy with wanting you - If you don't come tomorrow - I don't see how I can wait for you - I wonder if your body wants mine the way mine wants yours - the kisses - the hotness - the wetness - all melting together - the being held so tight that it hurts - the strangle and the struggle.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Hurt, Crazy, Struggle

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So 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 the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Art, Flower, Looks

Quoted in Goodrich and Bry GeorgiaO'Keeffe (1970).

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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

Men, Blue, Sun

Georgia O'Keeffe, Richard Marshall, Yvonne Scott, Achille Bonito Oliva, Vancouver Art Gallery (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: nature and abstraction”, Skira - Berenice

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Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what they report is the degree of their experiences. Intellect
wishes to arrange — intuition wishes to accept.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Artist, Intuition, Wish

"Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 167, 1988.

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

Georgia O'Keeffe

Art, Flower, Copies

Georgia O'Keeffe, Jonathan Stuhlman, Barbara Buhler Lynes (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction”, p.26, Hudson Hills

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I decided to accept as true my own thinking.

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Thinking, Accepting, My Own

Georgia O'Keeffe, Amarillo Art Center, West Texas State University (1985). “Georgia O'Keeffe & her contemporaries: Amarillo Art Center, September 7-December 1, 1985 in honor of the 75th anniversary of West Texas State University”

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Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.

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Thinking, Color, Effort

Jennifer Saville, Georgia O'Keeffe, Honolulu Academy of Arts (1990). “Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'i”

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It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't live always - til we die physically.

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People, Reason Why, Dies

Georgia O'Keeffe, Clive Giboire (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Morning, People, Solitude

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I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!

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Frightened

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Born: November 15, 1887
Died: March 6, 1986
Occupation: Artist
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