Art Quote by Robert Henri

From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of…

— Paul Klee

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

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

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking…

— Eudora Welty

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

A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots.

— Ray Wilkins

“If you're looking at a single withered tree, it can seem like a grievous wound to the forest. But from the forest's perspective, that…

— Isuna Hasekura

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for…

— Haile Selassie

“One reason that people have artist’s block is that they do not respect the law of dormancy in nature. Trees don’t produce fruit all…

— Marshall Vandruff

“Some stories last many centuries, others only a moment. All alter over that lifetime like beach-glass, grow distant and more beautiful with salt. Yet…

— Jane Hirshfield

Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and enrich human…

— Steven Clark Rockefeller

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero