More From 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."
- "That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact."
- "Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end."
More In Art
- "I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed."― Steve Lacy
- "The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level."― Jerry Saltz
- "Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs."― Pablo Picasso