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.
I could wait patiently, but I really wish you would: Drop everything now, meet me in the pourin' rain, Kiss me on the sidewalk, take away the pain; Cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile Hit me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go down, Give me somethin' that'll haunt me when you're not around; Cause I see sparks fly whenever you . . . smile.
When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product.
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
It's a form of human love to accept our complicated, messy humanity and not run away from it.
I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.
My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.
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