Best quotes by Walter Pater on Art

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• ‟ For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

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• ‟ All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

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

  - Walter Pater
  

• ‟ And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

  - Walter Pater