"I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself."

Robert Mapplethorpe, American Photographer

Flowers,

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"I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere."

Ray Davies, English Musician

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"My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Flowers,

"Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers."

Walter de La Mare, English Poet

Flowers,

"For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive."

Al Purdy, Canadian Poet

Flowers, Man

"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Flowers, Glory

"I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect."

Sharon Stone, American Actress

Flowers, Gentleman, Respect

"There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses."

Louis Aragon, French Poet

Flowers, Error, Reason, Senses

"I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids."

Beau Bridges, American Actor

Flowers, Garden

"Flowers grow out of dark moments."

Corita Kent, American Artist

Flowers, Moments

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

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Flowers, Garden

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"I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied."

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"I just try to live my life and do my thing."

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"I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere."

"My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white."

"Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers."

"For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive."

"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long."

"I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect."

"There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses."

"I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids."

"Flowers grow out of dark moments."

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

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"Happiness? No, it's not there for me."

"This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it."

"My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be."

"I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied."

"You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations."

"Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love."

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"I don't think any collector knows his true motivation."