So I said to myself, I’ll paint what I see, what the flower is to me. But I’ll paint it big, and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it. I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers…
…Well, I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower—and I don’t.
– Georgia O’Keeffe (text with An Orchid, 1941)