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Georgia O鈥橩eeffe was one of the most important and influential artists of the twentieth century. Bridging representation and abstraction, she depicted plants, flowers, cityscapes, and landscapes in iconic paintings whose unique style has become an indelible part of our visual culture. Drawn from her published writings, letters, interviews, and other sources, the quotes in 翱鈥橩别别蹿蹿别-颈蝉尘蝉 provide insights into her artistic philosophy, creative process, and profound connection to the desert landscapes of New Mexico and the American Southwest. Poetic, fearless, and introspective, 翱鈥橩别别蹿蹿别-颈蝉尘蝉 provides a vivid window into the mind of a beloved modernist artist who forged her own path.

• 鈥淚 have wanted to paint the desert and I haven鈥檛 known how. I always think that I cannot stay with it long enough. So I brought home the bleached bones as my symbols of the desert. To me they are as beautiful as anything I know.鈥�
• 鈥淚 do not like the idea of happiness鈥攊t is too momentary鈥擨 would say that I was always busy and interested in something鈥攊nterest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.鈥�
• 鈥淭he men decided they didn鈥檛 want me to paint New York. They wouldn鈥檛 let me. They told me to 鈥榣eave New York to the men.鈥� I was furious!鈥�
• 鈥淚鈥檒l tell you how I happened to make the blown-up flowers. In the twenties, huge buildings sometimes seemed to be going up overnight in New York. At that time I saw a painting by Fantin-Latour, a still-life with flowers I found very beautiful, but I realized that were I to paint the same flowers so small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I鈥檒l make them big like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they鈥檒l have to look at them鈥攁nd they did.鈥�
• 鈥淵ou decide on the kind of person you want to be, and then you get at it. It鈥檚 like a habit of neatness.鈥�