„The large ‘White Flower’ [Georgia painted in 1929] with the golden heart is something I have to say about White – quite different from what White has been meaning to me. Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know that the flower is painted large to convey to you my experience of the flower – and what is my experience of the flower if it is not color.“

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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„I know I cannot paint a flower. I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint color I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time.“
— Georgia O'Keeffe
„I paint flowers so they will not die.“
— Frida Kahlo
„Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.“
— Claude Monet
„All Heaven and EarthFlowered white obliterate…Snow… unceasing snow“
— Bashō Matsuo
„I never see that prettiest thing-A cherry bough gone white with Spring-But what I think, "How gay 'twould beTo hang me from a flowering tree.“
— Dorothy Parker
„Ladies and gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself.“
— Nathan Bedford Forrest
„I HIDE myself within my flowerThat wearing on your breast,You, unsuspecting, wear me too—And angels know the rest.I hide myself within my flower,That, fading from your vase,You, unsuspecting, feel for meAlmost a loneliness…“
— Emily Dickinson