I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

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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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Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time.
-- Georgia O'Keeffe
Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously.
-- Sam Walton
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
-- Bill Gates
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wernher von Braun
Art is whatever the artist says it is.
-- Marcel Duchamp
My bathwater is not dirty, it is just slightly used.
-- Emmy Noether