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Georgia OKeeffe Quotes about Giving

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

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

Georgia O'Keeffe
Giving, World, Giving Back
Jennifer Saville, Georgia O'Keeffe, Honolulu Academy of Arts (1990). “Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'i”

I long ago came to the conclusion that even if I could put down accurately the thing I saw and enjoyed, it would not give the observer the kind of feeling it gave me. I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at-not copy it.

Georgia O'Keeffe
Art, Long Ago, Giving
Georgia O'Keeffe, Robert Pincus-Witten, Hirschl & Adler Galleries (1986). “Georgia O'Keeffe: selected paintings and works on paper : April 26 through June 6, 1986”, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Incorporated

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