Gardening Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

9 Gardening quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

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Georgia O'Keeffe’s garden musings, gathered in nine short verses, echo her painterly eye for form and color. This compact set provides a quick taste of her artistic relationship with the garden.

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“I hate flowers.”

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“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.”

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You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I…

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Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a…

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A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

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“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to…

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I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

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When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to…

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“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see…

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Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man?…

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My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.

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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

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