Dale Chihuly says.

'I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to exhibit my artwork amongst the extraordinary plant collections at Kew and in the Palm House, the greatest glasshouse in the world.'

'I want my work to appear like it came from nature so that if someone found it . they might think it belonged there.'

'My forms are made in a very natural way so they look like they come from nature. they work in a greenhouse and work with plants because they don't really look like the plants that are there but they complement the plants that are there.'

'Only certain types of art would work in a greenhouse. I've worked outside, mostly in a temporary way, I know how art works with nature. There are elements to my work that have plant-like influences in them.'

'A lot of work I do is nature inspired or looks like it might come from nature, but I don't look specifically at something to make it. I just sort of have a natural feeling for using glass - trying to take advantage of the colour and transparency that glass offers and the ability to take this ancient material which is blown with human air, this magical material.'

'Over time I developed the most organic, natural way of working with glass, using the least amount of tools that I could. The glass looks as if it comes from nature.'

'I think a lot of it comes from the fact that we don't like to use a lot of tools, but (we use) natural elements to make the glass - fire, gravity, centrifugal force. As a result it begins to look like it was made by nature.'

'I love to juxtapose the manmade and the natural to sort of make people wonder are they manmade or did they come from nature? That's a very important part of my work.'

'I cannot understand it when people say they don't like a particular colour. How on earth can you not like a colour?'

'Why do people want to collect glass? Why do they love glass? For the same reason, I suppose, that many of us want to work with it. It's this magical material that's made with human breath, light goes through it, and it has this incredible colour.'