“To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
Quotes by 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 matter from the form, and the understanding can always make this distinction, yet it is the constant effort of art to obliterate it.”
“Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.”
Walter PaterWalter Pater was an influential English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, celebrated for his distinctive prose style and profound insights into art and aesthetics. His seminal wor...