Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. – Walter Pater
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. – Walter Pater

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. – Walter Pater
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. – Walter Pater
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. – Walter Pater
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects. – Walter Pater