Walter H. Pater Quotes

"What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions."
-Walter H. Pater in Curiosity quotes.

"Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end."
-Walter H. Pater in Experience quotes.

"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music, because, in its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression; and to it therefore, to the condition of its perf."
-Walter H. Pater in Art quotes.

"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music."
-Walter H. Pater

"He seemed to those about him as one listening to a voice, silent for other men."
-Walter H. Pater

"I hope we don't lose in America this demand that those of us who want this office must be prepared not to handle the 10-second gimmick that deals, say, with little things like war and peace."
-Walter H. Pater in War quotes.