'create impressions' is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it in situations where you are trying to describe someone's ability to make an impact, either positively or negatively, through their words or actions. For example, "John was a masterful presenter, able to create impressions that lasted long after his speech was finished."
"A solo exhibition tells more of a story, otherwise you have disconnected pieces that create impressions," said Alexander Platon, Sotheby's head of private sales in Europe, who organizes the Chatsworth sculpture exhibition every year and was in Singapore to oversee the installations.
As Prof Tim Jackson has pointed out so tellingly in his 2009 book, Prosperity Without Growth, many brands are very far from being a "force for good" in the world: "People are being persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about".
Just as the artist molds paper around three-dimensional forms to create impressions in his prints, so he treats the gallery architecture as a ductile medium, creating the illusion that its surfaces are as loose and pliable as skin or cloth.
Egomaniacal moves, personal grandiosity, greed, and deception create impressions that are hard to erase.
They typically create impressions, convey information about emotions or attitudes, or alter the salience of linguistically-possible interpretations rather than conveying distinct propositions or concepts in their own right.
After I ordered a set, for $550, an audiologist was dispatched to my office to create impressions of each ear, a painless ten-minute process completed by filling them with a cool green silicone.
Pausing briefly to create impression of guilt".
* $25 million for ad campaign to create impression W. has the knowledge and experience to be president.
Our hope is that we create impression on the viewer.
Images of toppled oil tanks and dark sheens on the water created impressions of an environmental calamity, but state officials say the damage appears to be limited.
In Jubilate Agno, he describes his writing as creating "impressions".
