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“The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding — to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Painter
1970s / Some Memories of Drawings (1976)
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