“The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.” MindStatesYoungGrowsImpressionPersuasionFlexibleSoftnessRigidityYoung Minds Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait
“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.” MenArtStatesEffortPrinciplesDestinyObjectsHe ManExpressionCapableIdealsImpressionMagnificentOur DestinyHesitationImpartArtifice Author:Paul Valery
“(Jean) Fautrier's exhibition (in Paris 1945,fh) made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pure state. The word 'art' had never before been so loaded with meaning for me.” ArtMadeStatesStrongPureImpressionParisRealisedLoadedExhibitions Author:Jean Dubuffet
“Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word.” ShouldStatesDivineActivityEternalImpressionOperationsSusceptibility Author:Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon