Able Quote by T. Allen Lawson

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

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

“It is easier to recognize failures of technique rather than those of strategy or purpose, and simpler to ask "How do I paint this…

— Frank Chimero

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

— Aime Cesaire

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

— Elton John

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

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

— Willem de Kooning

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

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

This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff.

— Carl Sagan

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe

— John Steinbeck