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“A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.”

Should Firsts Difficult Party Pieces Directors Bases Appearance Impression Chosen Conductor Containing First Date

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.”

Feels Firsts Loses Principles Add Paint Impression Canvas First Impression

Author:Camille Pissarro

“The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.”

Firsts Art Reality Art Is Impression Works Of Art First Impression Otherness

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“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

“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.”

Way Firsts Grows Too Much Infinite Details Impression Finishing Freshness Lava Belated

Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“Set up your study or picture in an orderly fashion. This order should not cramp either the linearist or the colorist... Never lose sight of that first impression by which you were moved.”

Should Firsts Order Loses Study Fashion Sight Moved Impression Orderly First Impression Cramps

Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

“There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add no details that shall weaken it! Look first for the big things! 1st. Proportions! 2nd. Values - or masses of light and shade. 3rd. Details that will not spoil the beginnings!”

Firsts Looks Bigs Light Values Force Strength Mass Add Details Impression Proportion Shade Big Things Vitality Vivid Spoil

Author:William Morris Hunt

“What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.”

Want Firsts Shows Eye Rooms Impression Glances Entering First Impression Impressionism

Author:Pierre Bonnard

“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

“Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.”

Firsts Values Realizing Impression First Impression Impressionism

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“You never get a second chance to make a first impression.”

Inspirational Firsts Chance Basketball Educational Customers Impression Second Chance First Impression Inspirational Customer Service Good First Impression

Author:Will Rogers

“Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.”

Firsts Two Three Judging Impression Wheels Permit Screws First Impression Valve

Author:Anton Chekhov

“A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.”

Firsts Matter Sight Impression Love At First Sight Invitations Stunning First Impression

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold