Walter Pater Quotes

To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
— Walter Pater Studies in the History of the Renaissance

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
— Walter Pater Studies in the History of The Renaissance

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
— Walter Pater

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
— Walter Pater Studies in the History of the Renaissance

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
— Walter Pater Appreciation