The sunflower is mine, in a way.

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.…

— Vincent Van Gogh

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…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Restless sunflower; cease to move.

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.”

— Jandy Nelson

…we’re all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we’re all blessed by our own seed & golden hairy naked accomplishment (Sunflower Sutra)

— Allen Ginsberg

The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth…

— Brennan Manning

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…

— Abraham Cowley

Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?

— Simone Elkeles

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to…

— Patricia Briggs

“She is a sunflower! She brings hope to people.”

— Avijeet Das

My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums...

— Mary Oliver

I'm thinking waiters and waitresses are going to be bracing for more customers coming in going, not just kind of where is that beef…

— Michael Moss

The cops drive by to do some more good deeds A young black male spits a sunflower seed in the air.

— Dred Scott

Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose,

— Miranda Kerr