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Walter Pater Quotes
Page 2 of 2Walter Pater
August 4, 1839 - July 30, 1894
Nationality: English
Category: Critic
Subcategory: English Critic
|  No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. | | 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. | | 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. | | In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. | | Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. |
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