I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.
Georgia O'KeeffeRead
You are one of my nicest thoughts.
Interpretation
This quote expresses deep affection and appreciation for someone special.
Georgia O'Keeffe's quote highlights the notion that thoughts can reflect our feelings and values. By stating that someone is 'one of my nicest thoughts', O'Keeffe conveys that the presence of this person brings joy and beauty to her mind, illustrating how love and admiration can transform our inner landscape.
In practice
This quote can be used as a heartfelt message in a love letter.
I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.
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.
"How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God.
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.
If you’re the girl that needs a boyfriend, and once she loses that boyfriend needs to replace it with a different boyfriend, it’s just this constant stream of boyfriends all the time. I don’t feel like I ever want to be that girl. I want to be the girl that when she falls in love, it’s a big deal and it’s a rare thing.
Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth_x000D_ _x000D_ Are children of one mother, even Love.
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