I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Born in Wisconsin in 1887, O'Keeffe is the mother of American modernism. Her magnified flowers and Southwestern landscapes distill nature into bold abstract forms that feel simultaneously intimate and monumental.
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I do not wish to be called divine while alive.
-- Titian
Colors are the smiles of nature.
-- Titian
I hold the imitation of color to be the greatest difficulty of art.
-- El Greco
Color is my daily obsession, my joy and my torment.
-- Claude Monet
Exactitude is not truth.
-- Henri Matisse
Illness, insanity, and death were the dark angels that kept watch over my cradle.
-- Edvard Munch