"I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move."

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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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"It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased."

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"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."

Friendship

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."

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"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."

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"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."

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"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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"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."

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"The days you work are the best days."

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"Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished."

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"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint."

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