Art Quote by Walter Pater

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music, because, in its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the…

— Walter H Pater

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,

— Walter Pater

“ All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to distinguish the…

— Walter Pater

Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of…

— Iannis Xenakis

The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion,

— George Inness

Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.

— Daniel Bell

“Art, and above all, music has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of…

— Iannis Xenakis

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes…

— Albert Camus

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather…

— Wassily Kandinsky

“According to my present theme the writer of imagination would attain closest to the conditions of music not when his words are dissassociated from…

— William Carlos Williams

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

— Leo Ornstein