“One of the things I love about the theater is that no one can tell you to stop. Once you're onstage, it's three hours, and whether you're completely off or you're just horrendous, you've got to find a way to leave an impression. There's not that terrible thing that you get when you're making a movie, where you get in your car at the end of the day knowing that something you're not proud of was immortalized on film, and you can't fix it because they won't reshoot it.” WayEndsFilmThreeHoursKnowingCarProudTerribleTheaterImpressionThe End Of The DayTerrible ThingsThings I Love Author:Carey Mulligan
“There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.” PeopleWorldKindTwoWisdomTodayUsedPoliticsEconomyKnowingThis WorldGoldHorseStuckImpressionAssLiberalismGrandmotherCoveredMy Grandmother Book:Don Quixote Source: Don Quixote
“Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).” Has BeensFactsKnowingObjectsMovedImpressionTendenciesTransformed Author:Alberto Giacometti
“To put the matter in Aristotelian terminology, visual impressions are prior in the order of being to concepts pertaining to physical color, whereas the latter are prior in the order of knowing to concepts pertaining to visual impressions.” MatterOrderVisionKnowingColorConceptsImpressionVisualsLatterTerminology Author:Wilfrid Sellars