I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any … - Georgia O'Keeffe

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On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit.

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

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You are one of my nicest thoughts.

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To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

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I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

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To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.

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Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually all of his adult life balancing his restrained homosexuality, which is bound together with his sensitivity to beauty and thus with his artistic vocation, against the demands of conventional society.

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Benjamin Graham

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I have a feeling you're right, Sherwin. ' 'Simon. My name is Simon.

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