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“We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind.”

Mind Art Whole Use Lying Subjects Losing Connections Communicate Impression Logical

Author:Camille Pissarro

“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

“There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.”

Men Heart Soul Whole Certain Hours Circumstances Seasons Harmony Climate Impression

Book:Raphael: Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

Source: Raphael: Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

“The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.”

Giving Whole Feelings Home Funny Stars Cities Cutting One Day Mountain Hollywood Strikes Impression Remove Los Angeles Bowls Movie Star Impermanence

Author:Allan Sherman

“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

“The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually flowing in, or traces of the old ones are marked deeper. If, therefore, you be not acquiring good principles be assured that you are acquiring bad ones; if you be not forming virtuous habits you are, how insensibly soever to yourselves, forming vicious ones.”

Ifs Men Mind Ideas Whole Principles Subjects Habit Deeper Whole Life Impression Virtuous New Ideas Vicious Assured Barren

Book:Views of Christian truth, piety, and morality: selected from the writings of Dr. Priestley : with a memoir of his life

Source: Views of Christian truth, piety, and morality: selected from the writings of Dr. Priestley : with a memoir of his life