“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.Walter Pater
“Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.Walter Pater
“Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.Walter Pater
“To know when one’s self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.Walter Pater
“Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.Walter Pater
“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.Walter Pater