"I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do â€“ no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?"

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Source : Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.45, Infobase Publishing

Georgia O'Keeffe

#Thinking Quotes #Matter Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you donâ€™t have any belief then you canâ€™t give anythingâ€”designing is an act of giving, and a belief in the value of the work fuels the desire to express something. Itâ€™s important to know what your values are and to take care of them.”
“When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.”
“He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind.”
“One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.”
“read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of it. There is a Bible in words of one syllable; I am happy to say I have never seen it. Such a monstrosity should be put alongside of the Rhyming Bible, of which, I believe, only one copy is in existence.”
“Whether it's in in livability, transportation, or the environment, Portland is always leading the country. We have more to do before we achieve our goals, but we should all be encouraged by our progress and this recognition.”
“I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.”

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