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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...

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

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I ...

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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 n...

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

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

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I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, s...

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It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

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

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'c...

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The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – ...

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

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When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to...

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The days you work are the best days.

I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing ...

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

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Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, b...

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

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a si...

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

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

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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...

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Georgia O'Keeffe

Artist

Born: 1887-11-15

Died: 1986-03-06

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (15 November 1887 – 6 March 1986) was an American modernist painter. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of American modernism".More