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Georgia O'Keeffe
November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986
Nationality: American
Category: Artist
Subcategory: American Artist

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

   

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.

   

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

   

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 had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

   

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.

   

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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