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; or draw a child by studying the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Elton John

A single tree doesn't make a forest.

— Chris Bradford

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

I never saw a discontented tree.

— John Muir

“people decided that trees have no feelings”

— Will Advise

A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots.

— Ray Wilkins

When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a…

— Frederick Lenz

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

But only God can make a tree.

— Joyce Kilmer

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

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