“Beauty is but a flower
Which wrinkles will devour.”

“Beauty's a frail flower.”
Forma bonum fragile est.

“I have found the most beautiful side of the flowers in the fallen flowers.”

“Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.”

“Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful”

“The wrinkles on his forehead are the marks which his mighty deeds have engraved.”

“Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.”

“Art is the Flower - Life is the Green Leaf. Let every artist strive to make his flower a beautiful living thing, something that will convince the world that there may be, there are, things more precious more beautiful - more lasting than life itself… you must offer real, living - beautifully coloured flowers - flowers that grow from, but above, the green leaf – flowers that are not dead – are not dying – not artificial – real flowers springing from your own soul – not even cut flowers - You must offer the flowers of the art that is in you – the symbols of all that is noble – and beautiful – and inspiring - flowers that will often change a colourless leaf - into an established and thoughtful thing.”

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

“A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.”