Flower Quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

— Robert Indiana

If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature…

— Anonymous

To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the…

— Alan Lee

You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living…

— John F. Carlson

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole…

— Nicole Krauss

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

— Willem de Kooning

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

— J. E. H. MacDonald

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists…

— James Whistler