Walter Pater

Walter Pater
Walter Horatio Paterwas an English essayist, literary and art critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His works on Renaissance subjects were popular but controversial, reflecting his lost belief in Christianity...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth4 August 1839
art doe removal
All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.
art mean expression
All art constantly aspires to the condition of music....In its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression; they inhere in and completely saturate each other....
life congratulations flames
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
book world vulgarity
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
art conditions aspire
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,