Tree Artists

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. - Jackson Pollock

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy. - Shel Silverstein

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

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. - Courteney Cox

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

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

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

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy. - Walt Disney

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

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

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

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, don't blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. - Kahlil Gibran

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

The mission of the artist in an over-technologized society, is to call the old magic back to life. - Tom Robbins

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. - Jeff Melvoin

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

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. - George Bernard Shaw

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

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

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

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

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung

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