I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
I paint flowers so they will not die.
The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
I gravitate toward floral and graphic prints.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.