Tree Artists

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

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

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

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

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

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities. - Stephen Sondheim

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Preoccupied with a single leaf you won't see the tree. - Vagabond

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

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

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

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

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

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

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

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

If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. - Ernest Hemingway

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

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

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

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

We breathe air, trees make air, homework kills trees, therefore homework is going to kill us all. - Unknown

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

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

Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it. - Ravi Zacharias

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

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. - Julia Cameron

I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright. - Millard Kaufman

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. - George Carlin

Advice from a tree:
- Stand tall and proud
- Go out on a limb
- Remember your roots
- Drink plenty of water
- Enjoy the view - Unknown

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. - Noam Chomsky