Walter Pater Quotes

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

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

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music, because, in its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression; and to it therefore, to the condition of its perfect moments, all the arts may be supposed constantly to tend and aspire.

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