“A flower is relatively small.
Everyone has many associations with a flower - the idea of flowers.
You put out your hand to touch the flower - lean forward to smell it - maybe touch it with your lips almost without thinking - or give it to someone to please them.
Still - in a way - nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small - we haven’t time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small.
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...” 

Georgia O'Keefe