Quotes by Walter Pater about Art

7 quotes by Walter Pater about art

Walter Pater English critic

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

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Art and poetry, philosophy and the religious life, and that other life of refined pleasure and action in the conspicuous places of the world, are each of them confined to its own circle of ideas, and those who prosecute either of them are...

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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but...

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

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For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

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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.

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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has...

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