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Painting “Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1” by Georgia O’Keeffe | Image source: telegraph.co.uk
Take a look at Georgia O’Keefe’s artist statement for Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932):
“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… Nobody really sees a flower – really – it is so small – we haven’t time – and to see takes time… So I said to myself – I’ll paint what I see – what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it.” – Georgia O’Keeffe |