#flower

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#beauty #compete #effort #flowers #never

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ↗

— Claude Monet

#become #flowers #having #i #owe

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

— Iris Murdoch

#about #flowers #joy #mad #must

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven. ↗

— Russell M. Nelson

#blossom #born #die #earth #flower

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#flower #modesty #nor #sincerity #spontaneous

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. ↗

— Beverley Nichols

#delectable #flowers #form #fragrance #overcome

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#friend #haven #like #nobody #really

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#beauty #could #decided #flower #huge

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#cheaper #flowers #hate #i #models

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#city #else #flower #give #hand