"One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work."
-Georgia O'Keeffe
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"I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore."
-Georgia O'Keeffe
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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 friend takes time."
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"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty."
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"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."
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"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."
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"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."
-Tom Stoppard
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
-Tom Stoppard
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
-Novalis
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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