Keep Your Face to the Sunshine

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do. 

~ Helen Keller

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, Arles, letter to his brother Theo 

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets. 

~ Edna Ferber

I should like to change into a sunflower most of all. They're so tall and simple. What flower would you like to be? 

~ Maude in "Harold and Maude"

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
 ~ Jean Paul Richter

Have you seen that portrait Gauguin did of me painting sunflowers? it was really I, but it's I gone mad. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

~ Chuck Jones

The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame
  To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame;
    It was not sleep that made him nod, he said,
      But too great weight and largeness of his head.
      ~ Abraham Cowley, Of Plants

Sunflower earrings can be found here.  Van Gogh paintings can be found in museums around the world.  Sunflowers can be found everywhere.