(8 quotes found)
“To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
Walter H. Pater
“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 perf”
“Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.”
“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.”
“What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions”
“Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end”
“He seemed to those about him as one listening to a voice, silent for other men”
“The aim of a true achievement must lie, not in futile efforts towards the complete accommodation of man to circumstances in which he chances to find himself, but in the maintenance of a kind of candid discontent, in the face of the very highest achie”
Walter Horatio Pater
