Artists and creativity Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

— Elton John

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

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

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

A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots.

— Ray Wilkins

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front…

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

Drawing is the root of everything.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.

— Giorgio Vasari