A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement. G. K. Chesterton
The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition. Roger Scruton
The first effect of fire is to dissolve all appearances of order. S.L.A. Marshall
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have. Wallace Stevens
If we were all given by magic power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. Bertrand Russell