Catching Quote by Georgia O'Keeffe

“Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp...”

Georgia O'Keeffe

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