Quotes by : Walter Pater

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is....

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a....

With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a....

It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis....

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become....

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

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

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian....

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