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As Hemingway wrote of what he truly knew, O'Keeffe expressed what she felt in her surroundings through color.
From the Black Door series ...
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I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself? I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.
Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower – and what is my experience if it is not the color? I found I could say things with colors that I couldn't say in any other way – things that I had no words for.
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The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.
- Georgia O'Keeffe
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