Best objects & impression Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.”

Ifs World Mind Play Whole Individual Magic Groups Objects This World Tricks Impression Observation Colour Scope Chamber Texture Impressionism

Author:Walter Pater

“Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.”

Littles Soul Force Opinion Objects Fortune Impression Wheels Passages Contingency

Book:The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

“The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man who reaches it will be capable of spontaneously producing, with no effort of hesitation, a magnificent and wonderfully ordered expression of his nature and our destinies.”

Men Art States Effort Principles Destiny Objects He Man Expression Capable Ideals Impression Magnificent Our Destiny Hesitation Impart Artifice

Author:Paul Valery

“Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.”

Source: Lectures Upon Shakspeare

“Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch and fix by any means at hand. At such moments I am unconscious of materials, of style, of rules, of everything that intervenes between my perception and the object or idea perceived.”

Mean Ideas Moments Hands Vision Sun Effects Style Objects Produce Color Materials Perception Impression Desperate Unconscious

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.”

Mean Ideas Five Objects Gains Absolutes Complexes Notion Senses Impression No Idea Cosmos Receiving

Book:Lovecraft's Works

Source: Lovecraft's Works

“Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato , looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge.”

“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

“There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a word--a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)

“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

“When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.”

Rooms Cities Poverty Forever Objects Impression Useless Destined Garbage Crystals Living Room Dump Velvet Cushions Satin Chandeliers Favelas

Book:Beyond All Pity

Source: Beyond All Pity

“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 Beens Facts Knowing Objects Moved Impression Tendencies Transformed

Author:Alberto Giacometti

“There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.”

Made Happiness Pleasure Common Objects Taste Thousand Impression Distinction Appetite Propositions Gratification Transient Converses Gleam Pleasure And Happiness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)

“A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.”

Mind Ideas Form Causes United Objects Determine Impression Lively Precedent

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a tool with his hands and producing an object that shows at every stage the direction of his will and the impression of his personality; and a machine which is producing, without the intervention of a particular man, objects of a uniformity and precision that show no individual variation and have no personal charm. The problem is to decide whether the objects of machine production can possess the essential qualities of art.”

“All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.”

Mind Natural Influence Objects Impression Kindred

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“... Nothing resembles reality less than the photograph. Nothing resembles substance less than its shadow. To convey the meaning of something substantial you have to use not a shadow but a sign, not the limitation but the image. The image is a new and different reality, and of course it does not convey an impression of some object, but the mind of the subject; and that is something else again.”

Mind Doe Different Use Reality Courses Subjects Objects Shadow Photograph Impression Limitation Substance Different Realities

Author:Thomas Merton

“I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces. The camera, or, rather, the eye, produces the impression of the place: I as a photographer am not passively taking in; I am active as a subject generating the object.”

I Can Use Eye Greater Subjects Objects Produce Projects Cameras Photographer Active Impression Landscape

Book:Olafur Eliasson: photographs

Source: Olafur Eliasson: photographs

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