Criticism Quote 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…

— Walter Pater

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Walter Pater

“The younger, certainly, had to the full that charm of a constitutional freshness of aspect which may defy for a long time extravagant or…

— Walter Pater

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

— 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…

— Walter Pater

“art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose”

— 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…

— Walter Pater