Barking Up The Wrong Tree Quotes

To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.

When you go and create something, you want to believe in it. If they don't, we're barking up the wrong tree. But when you believe in something and you see other people believing in it too, it just feels like you're doing something right in the world, and that feels good.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

It takes a long time to become young.

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.