I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

The flowers anew returning seasons bring but beauty faded has no second spring.

Beauty is but a flower which wrinkles will devour.

A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty fragrance and the lift they give our spirits.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale you could not ignore its beauty.

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Becoming emancipated at 14 my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company Flower Films and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30 I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography and I want to take an art history class.

Works of art often last forever or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves especially gallery exhibitions are like flowers they bloom and then they die then exist only as memories or pressed in magazines and books.

After its hothouse incubation in the seventies appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

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 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's bad art.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

When I judge art I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes it is not art.

Gwen Stefani has amazing style. I used to really love Courtney Love and anything she wore I loved. Or Chloe Sevigny because I really love that sort of classic look and I like being girly and flowery and wearing little D&G dresses. I wear hats a lot too. I think it goes back to when I was a bit grungy and was a skater girl for a bit.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone but also on trees and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

At my age flowers scare me.