I did not want to be a tree a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body we as audience must see ourselves not the imitated behavior of everyday actions not the phenomenon of nature not exotic creatures from another planet but something of the miracle that is a human being.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

The fairest thing in nature a flower still has its roots in earth and manure.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Let a hundred flowers bloom let a hundred schools of thought contend.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers so long as they are wild free spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Forests lakes and rivers clouds and winds stars and flowers stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Earth laughs in flowers.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.