"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it,” she said, cupping her hand and holding it closer to her face, “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, One Hundred Flowers, (Knopf/Callaway)
"Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art." ~ Georges Braque
"How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said." ~ Victor Hugo quotes (French romantic Poet, Novelist and Dramatist, 1802-1885)
