Quote by Horace

“That's initially what got me interested in painting, is that I could create any kind of world that I wanted. No bad stuff here.…

— Bob Ross

“A tree is a fantastic example of beauty, but who has time to look at a tree?”

— Janwillem van de Wetering

“To be sure, I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but (s)he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you see a red tree, paint it bright red.”

— Paul Cezanne

“A wandering carpenter, called Stone, saw on his travels a gigantic old oak tree standing in a field near an earth-altar. The carpenter said…

— Chuang Tzu

“A wood that smells of the sea.”

— Nina George

If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would…

— Calvin Coolidge

“A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.”

— E. O. Wilson

“She found the company that made her favorite architectural model trees. They weren't the most realistic, they weren't even well made. She didn't like…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

— Elton John

“I thought of a line from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, “As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted ocean.”

— Jeffrey Ford

Paint the entire ship? Id rather eat my cigar!

— Hannibal