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

- Walter Pater

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

- Walter Pater

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of tempe…

- Walter Pater

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 m…

- Walter Pater

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

- Walter Pater

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

- Walter Pater

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

- Walter Pater

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

- 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 own creation in…

- Walter Pater