Quotes by : Walter Pater

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

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then,....

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

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

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes....

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....

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

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

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