Impression Quotes

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I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what… — Yves Klein
The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in… — David Milne
You want to make an impression. Being clever helps. — Leonard Maltin
I don't mean to sugarcoat the figure on restatements, but I think it is positive - it shows a healthy system. The general impression of… — Steve Odland
Well my own impression of my musical pieces is that no matter how long I've been at it, there's not much improvement. So that's kind… — Nobuo Uematsu
Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression that such an… — Walter J. Phillips
The impression of wood-grain... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression of form. A… — Walter J. Phillips
You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to… — Sydney, Lady Morgan
If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression. — John F. Carlson
Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice. — Mu Xin
Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable… — Mu Xin
Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without… — Baldassare Castiglione
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. — Will Rogers
Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later… — Rachel Carson
When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was… — Walt Disney
The thing that all of us should strive for is to so live, keeping the commandments of the Lord, that He can answer our prayers.… — Harold B. Lee
What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of… — Max Planck
My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of… — H P Lovecraft
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness? — St. Jerome

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