Sunflower Quotes

• Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Friend
  • Sun
  • Sunflower

• I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Work
  • Like
  • Thought

• The thing I miss about Russia the most is what is called 'black bread.' It's rye bread, and everyone eats it. I slice mine up and put sunflower oil and salt on it... the best thing ever. It was like a little treat for me when I was a kid.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Up
  • Black
  • Best

• I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Painting
  • Surprise
  • Eating

• I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Moving
  • Film
  • Touch

• The sunflower keeps its eye on the sun with its back turned to the shade. We die facing life with our backs to death, as if we were walking out of a room backwards.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Life
  • Death
  • Die

• The sunflower is mine, in a way.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Way
  • Mines
  • Sunflower

• A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like woman too.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Beautiful
  • Flower
  • Rose

• Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.

  

  Charles Jencks
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Running

• If I were a flower.. I would be a sunflower. To always follow the sun, Turn my back to darkness, Stand proud, tall and straight even with my head full of seeds.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Proud
  • Sun
  • Flower

• But one, the lofty follower of the Sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves Drooping all night; and, when he warm returns, Points her enamoured bosom to his ray.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Night
  • Sun

• I want to be like a sunflower; so that even on the darkest days I will stand tall and find the sunlight.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Sunflower

• The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • She
  • Earth
  • Sun

• I'm thinking waiters and waitresses are going to be bracing for more customers coming in going, not just kind of where is that beef from, but, like, where is that vanilla from and what's up with that sunflower oil? Is it organic or not and how many pesticides?

  

  Michael Moss
  • Customers
  • Pesticides
  • Vanilla

• Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, and life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Up
  • Earth

• When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Time
  • Men
  • Painting

• Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

  

  William Blake
  • Desire
  • Journey
  • Graves

• The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • Sunflower
  • Constancy
  • Emblems

• I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Painting
  • Bigs
  • Enthusiasm

• He’s like a sunflower, Grace. He leans into me as if I were the source of all light.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Light
  • Source
  • Sunflower

• I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Men
  • Painting
  • Enthusiasm

• I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.

  

  Miranda Kerr
  • Beautiful
  • Embrace
  • Uniqueness

• Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.

  

  Miranda Kerr
  • Sunflower
  • Supermodel