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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

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. – Walter Pater

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Success
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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater

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Books
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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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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. – Albert Einstein

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Art is mans expression of his joy in labor. – Henry A. Kissinger

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I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art. – Mary Baker Eddy

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Im afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. – Andy Warhol

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I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again. – Mary Augusta Ward

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