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“We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a certain kind of freedom could exist. This may well account for my seeking a related sense of liberty as I grew up.”

Way Wells Kind May Book Certain Left Parent Liberty Grew Grew Up Accounts Seeking Impression Atmosphere Related Lasting Lasting Impressions

Book:Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

Source: Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

“Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious.”

Firsts Persons Two Seems Today Science Certain Groups Errors Currents Impression Theology Materialistic Uninformed Religion Today

Author:Robert Andrews Millikan

“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.”

Knows Want Persons Reason Certain Impression Crucial Discovering Clue

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“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 its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.”

Art Said Done Certain Effort Attitude Opinion Grace Impression Accomplished Nonchalance

Author:Baldassare Castiglione

“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 wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)

“There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.”

Men Heart Soul Whole Certain Hours Circumstances Seasons Harmony Climate Impression

Book:Raphael: Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

Source: Raphael: Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

“I'm actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that's not the impression you get with wine.”

Done Certain Views Wine Productions Point Of View Impression Chemistry

Author:Brian Schmidt

“Art deals with profound and simple moods. Let us suppose that the artist - in this instance (the artist) Picabia - gets a certain impression by looking at our skyscrapers, our city, our way of life, and that he tries to reproduce it. He will convey it in plastic ways on the canvas, even though we see neither skyscrapers nor city on it.”

Way Trying Art Artist Certain Simple Deals Cities Profound Mood Impression Instance Plastic Canvas Skyscraper

Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.”

Soul Certain Turns Simple Opinion Expression Development Habit Shapes Assuming Affection Impression Features Habitual Countenance Physiognomy

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may wore properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame.”

May Said States Certain Values Interest Genius Fame Letters Raises Leaving Improvement Stealing Impression Sentiments Heirs Monarchs Commonwealth Plagiarism Prerogative

Book:The works of Laurence Sterne

Source: The works of Laurence Sterne