The artist is the confidant of nature flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

I did not want to be a tree a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body we as audience must see ourselves not the imitated behavior of everyday actions not the phenomenon of nature not exotic creatures from another planet but something of the miracle that is a human being.

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

The fairest thing in nature a flower still has its roots in earth and manure.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Let a hundred flowers bloom let a hundred schools of thought contend.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.