The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint. ... 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)

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint. ... 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

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