Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth li…

Georgia O'Keeffe
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Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it. ✨ Jennifer Saville, Georgia O'Keeffe, Honolulu Academy of Arts (1990). Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'i
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