Quotes by Walter Pater

Walter Pater

A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.

Book

Fall

Independent

A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.

Art

Blossoming

Elements

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

Consciousness

Elements

Important

All art constantly aspires to the condition of music….In its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression; they inhere in and completely saturate each other.

Art

Expression

Mean

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

Art

Giving

Quality

Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness. To define beauty not in the most abstract, but in the most concrete terms possible, not to find a universal formula for it, but the formula which expresses most adequately this or that special manifestation of it, is the aim of the true student of aesthetics.

Quality

Special

Useless

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

Book

Vulgarity

World

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

Intellectual

People

Views

How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy?

Energy

Focus

Numbers

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

Eye

Two

World

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Age

Ancient

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Artist

Beautiful

Beauty

Blossoming

Book

Century

Children

Congratulations

Consciousness

Culture

Death

Desire

Difficult

Disgusting

Elements

Energy

Excellence

Expression

Eye

Fall

Fashion

Flames

Focus

Forever

Giving

Hands

Important

Independent

Intellectual

Interesting

Italian

Life

Mean

Modern

Mother

Moving

New Beginnings

Numbers

Parent

Passion

People

Perfection

Philosophy

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Quotes by Walter Pater

Walter Pater

A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.

A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

All art constantly aspires to the condition of music….In its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression; they inhere in and completely saturate each other.

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

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

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

How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy?

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

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