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Georgia O'Keeffe

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I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.


— Georgia O'Keeffe


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It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.


— Georgia O'Keeffe


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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.


— Georgia O'Keeffe


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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.


— Georgia O'Keeffe


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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.


— Georgia O'Keeffe


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About Georgia O'Keeffe






Did you know about Georgia O'Keeffe?

In 1924 Georgia O'Keeffe painted her first large-scale flower painting Petunia No. By age ten Georgia O'Keeffe had decided to become an artist and Georgia O'Keeffe and her sister received art instruction from local watercolorist Sara Mann. She painted flowers landscapes and traditional Hawaiian fishhooks.

She made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens and New York buildings most of which date from the same decade. Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15 1887 – March 6 1986) was an American artist.

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