Roses Art
Henri Fantin-Latour was also a prolific painter of still life, particularly flowers including roses. The Rose ‘Fantin-Latour’ was named after the artist.
Other impressionists including Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne have paintings of roses among their works.
Quotes
• What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet. — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet act II, sc. ii
• O, my love’s like a red, red rose/That’s newly sprung in June — Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose
• Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar of roses out of the otter. Mark Twain, Roughing It
• Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses. — James Oppenheim, "Bread and Roses"
• Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose — Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily (1913), a poem included in Geography and Plays.
