Art Quotes by Walter Pater

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 or surprise us is indispensable.

Art

Blossoming

Elements

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 matter, the subject from the expression; they inhere in and completely saturate each other.

Art

Expression

Mean

Walter Pater

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

Art

Giving

Quality

Walter Pater

In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against the stupidity which is dead to the substance, and the vulgarity which is dead to form.

Art

School

Stupidity

Walter Pater

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Abstract

Art

Beauty

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 the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

Art

Beautiful

Book

Walter Pater

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

Art

Beauty

Excellence

Walter Pater

That the mere matter of a poem, for instance–its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture–the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape–should be nothing without the form, the spirit of the handling, that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter;Mthis is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.

Art

Poetry

Unity

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Age

Ancient

Art

Artist

Beautiful

Beauty

Blossoming

Book

Century

Children

Congratulations

Consciousness

Culture

Death

Desire

Difficult

Disgusting

Elements

Energy

Excellence

Expression

Eye

Fall

Fashion

Flames

Focus

Forever

Giving

Hands

Important

Independent

Intellectual

Interesting

Italian

Life

Mean

Modern

Mother

Moving

New Beginnings

Numbers

Parent

Passion

People

Perfection

Philosophy

Poetry

Principles

Quality

Religious

Renaissance

Rocks

Routine Work

School

Science

Self

Special

Spirit

Spiritual

Stupidity

Thinking

Two

Unity

Useless

Views

Vulgarity

Way

World

Writing

Years

Art Quotes by 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 or surprise us is indispensable.

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 matter, the subject from the expression; they inhere in and completely saturate each other.

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

In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against the stupidity which is dead to the substance, and the vulgarity which is dead to form.

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

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