Quotes About Art

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

In trees, I see expression and soul

There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.

How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.

If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able to paint trees.

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.

A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.

That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.

I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

Photography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.