"The artist may not ask any questions about the species at all, but rather look at a flower as an individual of nature with its own unique features of colour, texture, form, size, and proportion. Their first question may be 'how do I capture the essence of the flower in my canvas?' Or perhaps 'how do I create a work of true beauty that may equal or surpass nature itself?'"

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