Tree Artists

Friendship is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every good painter paints what he is. - Rembrandt Van Rijn

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

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

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy. - Claes Oldenburg

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

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett

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

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

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. - Pablo Picasso

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

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. - Henry David Thoreau

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

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

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

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

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. - Edgar Degas

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits. - Eleanor of Aquitaine

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. - Robert Schumann

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

Chocolate comes from coco, which is a tree - that makes it a plant. Chocolate is salad. - Unknown

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Smart people that like good health spend several hours outdoors daily in the shade of trees. - Steven Magee

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

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

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. - Latin Proverb

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

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

He that climbs the tall tree has won the right to the fruit; he that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. - Walter Scott

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

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

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

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. - Alice Walker

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

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