Author: Walter Pater

Quotes

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

- Walter Pater

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

- Walter Pater

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

- Walter Pater

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

- Walter Pater

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

- Walter Pater

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

- Walter Pater

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

- Walter Pater

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

- Walter Pater

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

- Walter Pater

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