Tree Artists

A pigment of your imagination - Archie Bunker

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

Trees often transplanted seldom prosper. - Flemish Proverb

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. - Moliere

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but imagination. - Immanuel Kant

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

There are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. - J K Rowling

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist. - George Carlin

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

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

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and bones. - Henry David Thoreau

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

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

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. - Truman Capote

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson

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

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. - Cornelia Funke

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time. - Martha Graham

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

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

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. - Ezra Pound

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

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

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. - John Muir

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. - R. Buckminster Fuller

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth. - Rolf Peterson

Only when the last tree has withered, and the last fish caught, and the last river been poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money. - Cree Proverb

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

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