The Flower Quotes
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling; it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower.
Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.
Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.
Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.
Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.
sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out.
The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep # trust .
In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.
I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.
When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.
No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.
A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain.
The Israelis haven't done anything to the Palestinians. They treated them with flowers and roses.
Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
Our souls cannot be forced to grow, but like flowers, our spiritual selves can be nurtured until they blossom and flourish.
What is love without passion? - A garden without flowers, a hat without feathers, tobogganing without snow.
Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way.
I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.