Tag: Walter Pater

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

Walter Pater

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

Walter Pater

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music

Walter Pater

We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

Walter Pater

To know when one’s self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

Walter Pater

Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

Walter Pater

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Walter Pater