Walter Pater Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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 beco...

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

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

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

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

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

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

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

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

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

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

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