Allen Ginsberg
Poet, Activist
"we're all golden sunflowers inside."
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Sunflower
44 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Simone Elkeles
Author
"Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?"
Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
"The sunflower is mine, in a way."
Joe Hill
Labor Activist, Songwriter
"Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers."
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"Make it like a sunflower."
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"Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?"
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"Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows."
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"Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers."
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"My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums."
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"Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!"
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"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."
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"Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you."
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