Tree Artists

A pigment of your imagination - Archie Bunker

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trees often transplanted seldom prosper. - Flemish Proverb

What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees? - Robin Williams

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

He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children. - Rebecca Helm-Ropelato

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character is the root of the tree; conduct, the fruit it bears. - E.M. Bounds

I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval

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

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. - Geoffrey Rush

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese Proverb

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

Man either goes forward in imagination or remains imprisoned in his senses. - Unknown

Learn not to talk to me. You shake the tree, a leopard's going to fall out. - Kobe Bryant

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. - Florence King

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. - George R.R. Martin

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. - Iris Murdoch

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

We breathe air, trees make air, homework kills trees, therefore homework is going to kill us all. - Unknown

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats

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

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. - Ernest Hemingway

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. - Unknown

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. - Joseph Conrad

I think trees should bloom earlier in the spring. They act like they are on a schedule. It’s not like they have anywhere to go. - Jarod Kintz

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't imagine what it might be. - Joyce Carol Oates

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree;
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all. - Ogden Nash

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out. - Robert Carlyle