I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.

Alfred Stieglitz. CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Georgia O'Keeffe
American modernist painter known for large-scale flowers and New Mexico landscapes. Married photographer Alfred Stieglitz; lived 1887–1986.
4 quotes
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time.