Impression Quotes - Page 4

• When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

  Eric Hoffer

  Evil, Giving, Promise

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• The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Humble, Pride

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.

  Eric Hoffer

  Want, Clue, Reason

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

  Aristotle

  Soul, Affection, Symbols

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• Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not to censure you. And if the answer is yes, correct the fault. If no, give the impression that you have not heard him, or if he is a man whom you respect, explain to him why he is mistaken.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Thinking, Giving

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• When I got to the hospice I was under the impression it would be a two- or three-week stay. But here I still am, six weeks later, and I've gotten so well Medicare won't pay for me anymore.

  Art Buchwald

  Health, Two, Would Be

  "The Man Who Would Not Die". "Having a High Time Where You'd Least Expect It" by Art Buchwald, www.washingtonpost.com. March 7, 2006.

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• It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

  Blaise Pascal

  Deception, Novelty, Deceiving

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.80

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• Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.

  Gail Sheehy

  Letting Go, Creativity, Illumination

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• One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

  Meister Eckhart

  Strong, Solitude, Mind

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Mistake, Lying, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.55, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Mean, Giving

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• But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.

  Walter Pater

  Play, Mind, Magic

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• Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

  Paul Gauguin

  Firsts, Finishing, Details

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• A good impression is lost so quickly.

  Claude Monet

  Lost, Impressionism

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.

  Auguste Rodin

  Artist, Accomplishment, Movement

  Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1983). “Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Desire, Should

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• There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Light

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, Linda L. McAlister, Margarete Schättle (2007). “Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben”, Univ of California Press

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• Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, Lightning, Moments

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• An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter.

  Paul Cezanne

  Light, Sight, Doe

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• By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.

  Paul Klee

  Color, Simplicity, Way

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.232, Univ of California Press

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• Let me recommend to you not to have too great dependence on your practice or memory, however strong those impressions may have been which are there deposited. They are forever wearing out, and will be at least obliterated, unless they are continually refreshed and repaired.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Strong, Memories, Practice

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• The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Imagination, Feelings

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Malone (1867). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone”, p.132

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• The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Memories, Drawing, Ideas

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• At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Distance, Perspective, Ordinary

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• Set up your study or picture in an orderly fashion. This order should not cramp either the linearist or the colorist... Never lose sight of that first impression by which you were moved.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Fashion, Sight, Order

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