Next to women, roses are the best thing God made. No other flower on earth has the shape, size, form and fragrance all rolled into one neat package.

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth

Three years she grew in sun and shower,/ Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower/ On earth was never sown;/ This child I to myself will take;/ She shall be mine, and I will make/ A Lady of my own.

Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beasts the jackal; and among women, the malin (flower girl).

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it / a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand / as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.