"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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"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."

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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?"

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"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 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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"Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country."

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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."

Time

"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 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."

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"Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose."

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"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."

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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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"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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