Treescape

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A little axe can cut down a big tree. - Jamaican Saying

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

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

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. - Glenn Close

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero

In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet. - Alice Abrams

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

The 'Earth' without art is just 'eh'. - Unknown

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. - Rodney Dangerfield

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. - James M Whistler

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

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

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

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

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - Steven Wright

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico

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

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

Art doesn't reproduce the visible but rather makes it visible. - Paul Klee

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. - Aristotle

A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire. - Angelina Jolie

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. - Vince Lombardi

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence J Peter

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. - Alexander Pope

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time. - Martha Graham

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above, so I never have to go upstairs. - Steven Wright

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

I'd stay away from Ecstasy: this is a drug so strong it makes white people think they can dance. - Lenny Henry

Because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. - Marilyn Manson

My wife is on a diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost any weight, but she can sure climb a tree. - Henny Youngman

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. - George Balanchine

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E M Forster

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

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

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

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

Love is like the wild-rose briar, friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? - Emily Bronte