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.
