Tree Artists

Every man under his own fig tree. - Hebrew Saying

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock

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

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

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Before imagination can flow, you must let go. - Unknown

The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. - Franz Liszt

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

By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree. - Cameroon Proverb

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. - Thomas Campbell

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. - Khalil Gibran

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. - Joyce Kilmer

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

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

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

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

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. - J.J. Furnas

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

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

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

I still have my Christmas Tree. I looked at it today. Sure enough, I couldn't see any forests. - Steven Wright

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. - Ursula K. Le Guin

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

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. - Donald Trump

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett

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

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? - Carol Burnett

Every person on this earth is full of great possibilities that can be realized through imagination, effort, and perseverance. - Scott B Kaufman

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

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato