The days you work are the best days.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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About Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers, hills and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived. Although she was a figure associated with interpretatio…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Georgia O'KeeffeOne 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.
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
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.
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 single thing I wanted to do.
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.
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
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The days you work are the best days.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.