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"I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move."
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"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."

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

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

"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!"

"If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!""

"I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room."

"There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves."
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"I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint."

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

"I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."

"One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work."

"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."

"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty."

"I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree."

"It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it."
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