Quotes by : Walter Pater

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy....

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

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.

Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which,....

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

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

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

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