You love the roses - so do I. I wish
The sky would rain down roses, as they rain
From off the shaken bush. Why will it not?
Then all the valley would be pink and white
And soft to tread on. They would fall as light
As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be
Like sleeping and like waking, all at once!
~George Eliot, Roses

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment
~Georgia O'Keeffe

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose,
because before he can do so, he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted
~Henri Matisse

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers
~Claude Monet

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine
~Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Whether in appreciation or in its creation, flower painting induces tranquility and purity
in the mind and stimulates serenity. It has long been considered one of the joys of life
~Chou Shih-hsin

Everything, a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being, is ultimately unknowable.
This is because it has unfathomable depth
~Eckhart Tolle