Best memories & impression Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.”

Men Left Memories Personality Impression Exterior

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“Let me recommend to you not to have too great dependence on your practice or memory, however strong those impressions may have been which are there deposited. They are forever wearing out, and will be at least obliterated, unless they are continually refreshed and repaired.”

May Has Beens Strong Memories Practice Forever Let Me Impression Dependence

Author:Joshua Reynolds

“The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.”

Wells Ideas Wish Memories Answers Masters Models Drawing Impression Painter Acquire Facility

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression.”

Ifs Memories Materials Originals Train Impression

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we receive in the normal course of everyday life, the way this affects our feelings and the shape it takes in our memory; and it is to this that I have always applied myself.”

Way Whole Feelings Seems Courses Memories Interesting Objects Shapes Normal Complexes Everyday Impression Representation Everyday Life Our Memories Complex Systems

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color”

Beautiful Memories Clear Cutting Color Shapes Remains Impression Features Beautiful Women Very Beautiful Auras Living Color

Author:William Bolitho

“A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression; but words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring.”

Source: Essays and Reviews

“Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.”

Memories Grief Objects Affection Delight Absence Impression Intense Poignant Widowed

Author:James Martineau

“Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.”

Years Firsts Book Dream Memories Five Alive Impression Five Years Haunting Texture Picture Books Vividness

Book:Delphi Works of E. F. Benson with the Complete Mapp and Lucia Novels (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of E. F. Benson with the Complete Mapp and Lucia Novels (Illustrated)

“The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those, to memories of the place, through empathy to vision.”

Memories Vision Conditions Empathy Tasks Starting Impression Architect Concrete Site Sensory

Author:Jean Nouvel

“One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir... as if the photographs themselves had a memory and were remembering us and how we, the surviving, and those who preceded us, once were.”

Ifs Littles Remember Memories Cry Despair Photograph Impression Surviving Stirring

Author:W. G. Sebald

“To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of the soil into a finished work of art. Those who pulled from the hectic passage of time an ordered memory. They are immortalized by their wine in my glass.”

Art Memories Effort Wine Fruit Glasses Finished Impression Soil Lasting Works Of Art Makers Passages Transformed Passage Of Time Hectic Good Wine Finished Work Lasting Impressions

Author:Dave Chambers

“The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert.”

Ends Dream Left Memories Reader Impression Melody Concerts Waking

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“The mind is a very intricate machine. It can store memories, past impressions, grudges, criticisms, judgments. It can hold a lot of stuff. In general, it's only really good at holding onto one thing at a time. Which is why, when we have a lot going on, we feel sort of stressed and we feel tension because the mind is busy trying to figure out what it should focus on first.”

Feels Should Trying Mind Firsts Past Stuff Memories Focus One Thing Figures Judgment Criticism Machines Busy Stores Impression Tension Holding On Stressed Grudge Intricate One Thing At A Time

Author:MC Yogi

“My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.”

Values Memories Impression Elimination

Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

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