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Georgia O'Keeffe: 'It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.'

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Georgia O'Keeffe: 'One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.'

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Georgia O'Keeffe: '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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Georgia O'Keeffe: 'Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.'

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Georgia O'Keeffe: 'I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.'

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Georgia O'Keeffe: 'One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.'

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Georgia O'Keeffe: '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.'

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Georgia O'Keeffe: 'The days you work are the best days.'

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Georgia O'Keeffe: 'I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.'

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Georgia O'Keeffe: 'I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.'

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Georgia O'Keeffe: 'You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.'

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Georgia O'Keeffe: 'To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.'

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Georgia O'Keeffe: 'I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.'

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

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Georgia O'Keeffe: 'I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.'

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Georgia O'Keeffe: '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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Georgia O'Keeffe: '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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Georgia O'Keeffe: '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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Fyodor Dostoevsky: 'Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.'

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Fyodor Dostoevsky: 'There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.'

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