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“Emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube.. ..the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours - alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes...”

Firsts Littles Waiting Emotion Alive Seeing Experience Paint Impression Colour Unseen Tubes Palette

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“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 color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion.”

Knows Trying Lines Emotion Color Scene Impression Painter Aesthetic Translate Simplify

Author:David Milne

“Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate.”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.”

Strong Emotion Doubt Possibility Conscious Impression Suspects Horizon Self-examination

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“One remembers different persons differently, some by the impact they have made on our emotions, and others by the impression they leave in our minds.”

Mind Persons Made Different Remember Emotion Impact Impression

Author:Hallie Burnett

“I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.”

Want Art Term Natural Lines Emotion Havens Skills Mass Weight Absolutes Mere Impression Plus Sentiments Translate Volume Composition Subjective Loveliness Pretext

Book:Georges Braque

Source: Georges Braque

“Insults from an adolescent daughter are more painful, because they are seen as coming not from a child who lashes out impulsively,who has moments of intense anger and of negative feelings which are not integrated into that large body of responses, impressions and emotions we call 'our feelings for someone,' but instead they are coming from someone who is seen to know what she does.”

Knows Children Doe Moments Feelings Body Emotion Daughter Negative Response Painful Impression Intense Insult Integrated Lashes Negative Feelings

Author:Terri E Apter

“A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.”

Stories Emotion Notes Senses Impression Instant Score Scent Fragrance Captivating

Author:Alber Elbaz