I have taken up the art of bonsai for a hobby. The ancient Japanese are said to have worked on a single tree for as long as a hundred years. Or perhaps it only seemed like it. (Lois McMaster Bujold)

I have taken up the art of bonsai for a hobby. The ancient Japanese are said to have worked on a single tree for as long as a hundred years. Or perhaps it only seemed like it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Related topics

ancient art hobby hundred japanese perhaps say single take tree years bonsai

Related quotes

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. View quote
Alice Walker
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings. View quote
F. H. Bradley
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. View quote
Hans Hofmann
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. View quote
Robert Benchley