I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.
Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.
I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.