Tree Artists

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey

The righteous will flourish like the palm tree. - Psalms 92:12

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - August Rodin

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination. - Emily Dickinson

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

Preoccupied with a single leaf you won't see the tree. - Vagabond

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. - Henry David Thoreau

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. - Vincent van Gogh

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles F. Kettering

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. - Andy Warhol

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence, we could rise up rooted like trees. - Rainer M Rilke

If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. - Ernest Hemingway

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughan

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Shady Character: A fellow who snoozes in a hammock under a tree while his wife mows the lawn - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

My wife is on a diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost any weight, but she can sure climb a tree. - Henny Youngman

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. - Mark Twain

An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities: a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity. - Howard Eves

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called 'licking the earth.' - Malcolm Muggeridge

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. - Julia Cameron

As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. - Woody Allen

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso

My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. - F Scott Fitzgerald

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. - Raymond E. Feist

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it was stupid. - Albert Einstein

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass