Georgia O'Keeffe
"I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught."
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"I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught."
"قررت أن أبدأ من جديد، أن أتجرد مما لقنته."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage."
"إن خلق المرء عالمه الخاص في أي من الفنون يتطلب شجاعة."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"The days you work are the best days."
"أيام العمل هي خير الأيام."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time."
"لا أحد يرى زهرة حقًا؛ إنها صغيرة جدًا. ليس لدينا الوقت، والرؤية تستغرق وقتًا – تمامًا كالصداقة تستغرق وقتًا."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"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. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."
"عندما تمسك زهرة في يدك وتتأملها حقًا، تصبح هي عالمك لتلك اللحظة. أرغب في أن أهب هذا العالم لشخص آخر. فمعظم الناس في المدينة يتسارعون بلا توقف، لا يجدون وقتًا للنظر إلى زهرة. أريدهم أن يروها، سواء أرادوا ذلك أم لم يريدوا."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty."
"قررتُ أنني لو استطعتُ رسم تلك الزهرة بحجمٍ هائل، لما أمكنك تجاهل جمالها."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time."
"قلما يدرك أحدٌ الزهرةَ إدراكًا عميقًا. لصغرها، تقتضي تأملاً. ونحن لا نملك متسعًا من الوقت. فالإدراك العميق يستلزم وقتًا، شأنه شأن بناء الصداقة."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage."
"إن خلق عالم المرء الخاص في أي من الفنون يتطلب شجاعة."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."
"المكان الذي ولدت فيه، وكيف وأين عشت، كل ذلك لا يهم. الأهم هو ما صنعتُ بالمكان الذي كنتُ فيه."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."
"لقد وجدتُ أنني أستطيع التعبير بالألوان والأشكال عن أمور لم أتمكن من قولها بأي طريقة أخرى – أمور لم أجد لها كلمات."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve."
"لا يكفي أن تكون لطيفًا في الحياة. بل لا بد أن تمتلك رباطة الجأش."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."
"لقد عشتُ في رعبٍ مطلقٍ كل لحظةٍ من حياتي، ومع ذلك لم أدعْه يمنعني قطّ من فعل أي شيءٍ أردتُه."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."
"لقد عشتُ في رعبٍ مطلقٍ كل لحظةٍ من حياتي، ومع ذلك لم أدعْه يمنعني قطّ من فعلِ أي شيءٍ أردتُه."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it’s all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve."
Georgia O'Keeffe
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