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“The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.”

Doe Art Ends Sometimes Feelings Purpose Imagination Failing Succeed Art Is Impression Imitation

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.”

Feels Made Ideas Reason Feelings Hands Doubt Failing Poet Shapes Skins Impression Reason Why No Doubt Texture Matthew

Book:Ser. Milton and the Augustan Age

Source: Ser. Milton and the Augustan Age

“The trouble with a great many men is that they spread themselves out over too much ground. They fail in everything. If they would only put their life into one channel, and keep it in, they would accomplish something. They make no impression because they do a little work here and a little work there....Lay yourselves on the altar of God, and then concentrate on some one work.”

Ifs Men Littles Too Much Failing Trouble Lays Spread Accomplish Impression Great Men Altars

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with which to communicate, but which fails to do justice to what has induced us to do so....We stay on the outside of our impressions, as if staring at them through a frosted window, superficially related to them, yet estranged from whatever has eluded casual definition.”

Ifs Feels Justice Failing Window Definitions Communicate Impression Staring Phrases Related Reach Out Casual

Author:Alain de Botton

“We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.”

Stills Bigs Failing Planets Ocean Weight Impression

Author:Sylvia Earle

“If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.”

People Ifs Firsts Looks May Belief Strong Company Failing Effects Succeed Assuming Impression Competent First Impression Halos Good First Impression

Author:Daniel Kahneman