Floral Design Quotes

I'm clueless when it comes to flowers.

A flower is an educated weed.

I sit before flowers 
hoping they will train me in the art 
of opening up

I arrange flowers in my spare time. Well, when I have spare time, that is.

Consider the rose...The rose is the sweetest smelling flower of all, and it's the most beautiful because it's the most simple, right? But sometimes, you got to clip the rose. You got to cut the rose back, so something sweeter smelling and stronger, and even more beautiful, will grow in its place

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

The right kind of floral makes you look styled and well-considered.

When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive.

Send a bouquet of your face with the morning breeze.

I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.

I'm obsessed with any kind of floral print.

Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.

I love fresh flowers for my home. I spend far too much money on them, buying them almost every day.

I went to school to learn to be a hairdresser. I worked at a wholesale florist, where I delivered to florists all over New Jersey. I'd come home and go out to work down at the Shore. The early jobs, I remember, were $5, $6 a night. And I lived in the projects right until the time I became successful.

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

My assistants generally do all the flowers and all of the decorative work. I concentrate on the figure.

I like it when I'm chirpy and happy, so I decided to do my hair green. I got my sunflowers too - I was like a living, walking garden.

Can anything be more grotesque and barbarous than our 'florists' bouquets,' a series of concentric rings of flowers of divers colours, bordered by maidenhair and a piece of stiff lace paper, in which stems, leaves, and even petals are brutally crushed, and the grace and individuality of each flower systematically destroyed?

I could quite happily run a florist or a bake shop.

I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.

Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.

I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.

Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.

Constance Spry was one of the first people to put flowers in urns and ceramic swans and other unusual containers, but her arrangements tended to be a little less full.