Walter Pater

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art…

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of…

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the…

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition…

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of…

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made…

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits…

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in…

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

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a…

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where…

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music…

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