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"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."

Claude Monet, French Artist

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"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."

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"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

"Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms."

Ikkyu Sojun, Japanese Poet

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"Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?"

Letitia Landon, British Poet

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"When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory."

John Foxe, English Writer

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"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

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

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"A fox is a wolf who sends flowers."

Ruth Brown, American Musician

"By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."

Brian Clough, English Athlete

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

Beau Bridges, American Actor

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"No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition."

"People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love."

Love, Art, People

"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love."

"My life has been nothing but a failure."

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