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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/for-art-comes-to-you-proposing-frankly-to-give-nothing-but-the/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/)

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> [Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/art-comes-to-you-proposing-frankly-to-give-nothing-but-the-highest/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/)

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## More by Walter Pater

> [A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/a-counted-number-of-pulses-only-is-given-to-us-of-a-variegated/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/)

> [What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/what-we-have-to-do-is-to-be-forever-curiously-testing-new-opinions/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/)

> [One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/one-of-the-most-beautiful-passages-of-rousseau-is-that-in-the-sixth/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/for-art-comes-to-you-proposing-frankly-to-give-nothing-but-the/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/)

> [Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/every-moment-some-form-grows-perfect-in-hand-or-face-some-tone-on-the/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/)

> [Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/not-to-discriminate-every-moment-some-passionate-attitude-in-those/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/)

> [A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/a-certain-strangeness-something-of-the-blossoming-of-the-aloe-is/)

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> [“The younger, certainly, had to the full that charm of a constitutional freshness of aspect which may defy for a long time extravagant or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/the-younger-certainly-had-to-the-full-that-charm-of-a-constitutional/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/)

> [Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/books-are-a-refuge-a-sort-of-cloistral-refuge-from-the-vulgarities-of/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/)

> [The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/the-base-of-all-artistic-genius-is-the-power-of-conceiving-humanity/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/)

> [“art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/art-is-self-sufficient-and-need-serve-no-moral-or-political-purpose/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/)

> [In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/in-a-sense-it-might-even-be-said-that-our-failure-is-to-form-habits/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/)

> [“The essence of humanism is that belief of which he seems never to have doubted, that nothing which has ever interested living men and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/the-essence-of-humanism-is-that-belief-of-which-he-seems-never-to/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/)

> [A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/a-very-intimate-sense-of-the-expressiveness-of-outward-things-which/)

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> [That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/that-sense-of-a-life-in-natural-objects-which-in-most-poetry-is-but-a/)

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