“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.Quote by Walter PaterTopics: Quotes about Walter PaterShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where...#Walter Pater
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of...#Walter Pater
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition...#Walter Pater
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to...#Walter Pater
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to...#Walter Pater
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing...#Walter Pater
