I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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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.Georgia OKeeffe
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
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To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
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One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
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