Quote by Walter Pater
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. - Walte

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. – Walter Pater

Other quotes by Walter Pater

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. – Walter Pater

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Experience
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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. – Walter Pater

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Beauty
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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. – John Keats

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Art is the struggle to understand. – Terri Guillemets

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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world. – Garry Kasparov

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You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. – Clarence Darrow

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The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. – Michel de Montaigne, Of Solitude

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Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience. – Robert Lanza

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The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being. – Francois Delsarte

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