“After the first Artist, only the copyist.” – Terry and Renny Russell in On The Loose
“Mauve takes it amiss that I said, ‘I am an artist’, which I won’t take back, because it’s self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the very opposite of saying ‘I know all about it, I’ve already found it’. As far as I am concerned, the word means, ‘I am looking, I am hunting for it, I am deeply involved.” – from The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
The flower in the picture is Spiderwort or Tradescantia ohiensis.