Georgia O'Keeffe Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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Filling a space in a beautiful way. That's what art means to me.

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

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My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around.

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I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

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We would see a long line of cattle like black lace against the sunset sky.

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His letters... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty...

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I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

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I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.

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My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.

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

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I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.

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

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We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)

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Nobody sees a flower — really— it is so small — we haven't time —and to see takes time.

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Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

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If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

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A flower touches almost everyone's heart. A red hill doesn't touch everyone's heart as it touches mine.

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I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.

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

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I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

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A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

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