"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms.  Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him."  - Auguste Rodin

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."  - Claude Monet

Painting: "Poppy Fields near Argenteuil" by Claude Monet. Photographs: Nattadon Hill.