Quotes About Impression

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.

I may be biased, but I think the cover art is stunning.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

But of works of art little can be said.

What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.

picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot

A picture is worth a thousand words.

cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event

I am not an actress. I am a mistress of disguise. Acting happens to be one of the perks

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

questions. "What did you see

Too easily impressed," Evanna tutted, resuming her former appearance. "You shouldn't judge by what's on the outside. Only a fool falls for a pretty face. Are you fools?

Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The V motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down--from high flat temples--in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.