Floral Aesthetics Quotes

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Consider the rose...The rose is the sweetest smelling flower of all, and it's the most beautiful because it's the most simple, right? But sometimes, you got to clip the rose. You got to cut the rose back, so something sweeter smelling and stronger, and even more beautiful, will grow in its place

Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back.

Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.

Flowers make me irrationally happy.

Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.

I remember passing through New York in college and thinking, 'I'm going to come back here.' The energy just made me think of Europe - everyone walking, seeing the delis and flowers outside. It just felt very familiar. I loved it right away.

My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.

Rose is the most beautiful flower - it and tuberose are my favourites.

If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.