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Georgia O'Keeffe

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."

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"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."

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"There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?"

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"But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day."

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"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

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"Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps?"

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"If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way."

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"Still, this was on the order of a minor miracle, running across someone to whom you can express your feeling so clearly, so completely. Most people go their entire lives without meeting a person like that. It would have been mistake to label this "love". It was more like total empathy."

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"The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance."

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"Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet."

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"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."

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"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."
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"Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country."
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"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."
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"I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint."
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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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"It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased."
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"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."
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"I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore."
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"Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose."
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"The days you work are the best days."
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