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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…

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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.
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'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.

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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 words for.