I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
From Georgia O'Keeffe
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
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 know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.
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.
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.
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.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
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