Who said “I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.”?

“To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”

“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”

“'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.”

“Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children -- honored as the jewelry of God only by them -- when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.”

“Earth laughs in flowers.”

“Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose.”

“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.”

“One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.”

“Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.”

“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.”