Tree Artists

Every man under his own fig tree. - Hebrew Saying

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

The man with no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

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

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

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. - Spike Milligan

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. - Seneca

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

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

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

When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response. - John Rhys-Davies

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

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears, does it make a sound? - Unknown

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

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. - Fred Allen

Someone told me I was immature. Guess who's not allowed in my tree house now? - Unknown

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson

It's better to fall from a tree and break your back than to fall in love and break your heart. - African Proverb

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. - Dmitri Shostakovich

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. - Charles Bukowski

On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
The Quangle Wangle sat,
But his face you could not see,
On account of his Beaver Hat. - Edward Lear

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

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

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

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