00:00I thought I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way, things I had
00:05no words for.
00:07Georgia O'Keeffe
00:11I want to paint the whole of America, the whole of the land.
00:16Georgia O'Keeffe
00:20When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's the whole world there.
00:26Georgia O'Keeffe
00:30I have been to the biggest, the most beautiful country in the world, and that is America.
00:37Georgia O'Keeffe
00:41I have always been interested in art and nature.
00:45They are both very mysterious and powerful.
00:49Georgia O'Keeffe
00:53There is a loneliness to which most people are unaccustomed.
00:58Georgia O'Keeffe
01:01I will paint what I see, what in the world around me is pulsing, exciting me.
01:08Georgia O'Keeffe
01:12I would rather have people think I am a bad painter than a good one who had nothing to say.
01:18Georgia O'Keeffe
01:22I am not interested in the academic school of art.
01:27Georgia O'Keeffe
01:30The desert is a beautiful and mysterious place.
01:35Georgia O'Keeffe
01:39Color is the most wonderful thing in painting.
01:43Georgia O'Keeffe
01:47I have never painted a soul.
01:50Georgia O'Keeffe
01:54What I have been working on is the simplification of my painting.
01:59Georgia O'Keeffe
02:03I have to get myself to the country, away from the city, to paint.
02:09Georgia O'Keeffe
02:13I make myself paint.
02:16I have to.
02:18Georgia O'Keeffe
02:22Abstract art is only a symptom of a general condition in which our senses are failing us.
02:29Georgia O'Keeffe
02:33I am a realist.
02:35Georgia O'Keeffe
02:39The days are not enough to do what I want to do.
02:43Georgia O'Keeffe
02:47One must see the color, the shape, the form, the light, the shadow.
02:53That is the most important thing.
02:56Georgia O'Keeffe
03:00The world is such a beautiful place, I am never bored.
03:05Georgia O'Keeffe
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