Impression Quotes

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Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions. — Thomas Couture
Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
A color is as strong as the impression it creates. — Ivan Albright
Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other… — Herwarth Walden
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before… — Christiaan Barnard
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product… — Edwin Howard Armstrong
It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or… — Agostino Scilla
But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her quiet determined way was a… — Judy Woodruff
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us. — Oscar Wilde
September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War against Terror. But my impression… — Norman Finkelstein
In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the… — Augustus William Hare
When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this… — Simone Weil
When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give… — Anton Chekhov
I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good… — Anton Chekhov
I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks 100 percent like… — Alexander Lukashenko
After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft… — Kent Haruf
Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed. — Richard Hugo
Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched. — Donna Fargo
The impressions on the soul that comes from the Holy Ghost are far more significant than a vision. It is where the spirit speaks to… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
It is through the repeated process of feeling impressions, recording them, and obeying them that one learns to depend on the direction of the Spirit… — Richard G. Scott

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