Impression Quotes - Page 3

• You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.

  Meg Wolitzer

  People, Signatures, Chance

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.281, Random House

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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

  Color, Knowing, Connections

  Thomas Couture (1879). “Conversations on Art Methods”

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• 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 your emotion.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Feeling Alone, Feelings, First Impression

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• Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious imitation, I yet never for an instant lose the emotion that has taken hold of me.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Art, Taken, Emotion

  From Corot's 'Notebooks', 1856. "Artists on Art, from the 14 to 20 Centuries". Book by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 241, 1972.

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• I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Writing, Imagination, Style

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.309, Penguin

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• 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 impression.

  Augustus William Hare

  Individuality, Peer Pressure, Life Is

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Sight, Clothes, People

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• It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country.

  Muriel Lester

  Country, Travel, Giving

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• Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.

  Dale Carnegie

  Trying, World, Approval

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• He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Believe, Quality, World

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “O Grande Gatsby: The Great Gatsby: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.174, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.

  Charles Darwin

  Past, Justice, Mind

  Charles Darwin, Michael T. Ghiselin (2010). “The Descent of Man”, p.442, Courier Corporation

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• Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Art, Struggle, Men

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

  Aristotle

  Soul, Affection, Symbols

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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