"It is always hazardous to express what one……" — Walter Pater

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

— Walter Pater

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45 Quotes by Walter Pater

Walter Pater has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of…
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is…
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp…
The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in…
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness…
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated…

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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. — Rowan Atkinson
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no… — Gaston Bachelard
Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides. — Scott Bakula
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express… — Ansel Adams
I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't… — Tyra Banks
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed… — Charles Baudelaire
I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me… — Emmanuelle Beart
I love fashion, and that's how I express myself. — Victoria Beckham
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it… — Pope Benedict XVI
Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider. — Buffalo Bill
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a… — Buffalo Bill
Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable… — Ben Affleck

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