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Georgia O'Keeffe: Singing has always...

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Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

Source: Quoted in: New York Sun (5 Dec. 1922; repr. in Laurie Lisle, Portrait of an Artist, 1986).
-- Georgia O'Keeffe, (Nov 15 1887-1986), US painter; She was one of the founders of Modernism and best known for Black Iris, 1926 and Cow's Skull, 1931.


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