The artist hears us talking, and he says: “My business, you see, is not to make real trees; that’s nature’s business; I’m a maker of pictures, and in them I only _suggest_ that the trees are real. I try to make you feel that these are maple trees”--and he points to that part of the picture with his brush--“and I hope also to make you feel their beauty. I don’t give you an imitation of nature, but a suggestion of nature’s truth.