Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Walter Pater (English Critic, Essayist)

Walter Horatio Pater (1839–94) was an English essayist, critic, and educator. His Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) and his advocacy of “art for art’s sake” significantly impacted the Aesthetic Movement’s development.

Born in Stepney in London’s East End, Pater was educated at King’s School, Canterbury, and Queen’s College-Oxford, and became a Fellow of Brasenose College-Oxford. His Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) displays the influence of the pre-Raphaelites with whom he associated.

Pater’s philosophic romance, Marius the Epicurean (1885,) appealed to a broader audience. His Imaginary Portraits (1887) and Appreciations (1889,) followed by Plato and Platonism (1893,) established his position as a critic. Still, people were already beginning to talk of his influence as unhealthy because he advocated a cultivated hedonism. His influence on Oxford, however, was profound. He died having left unfinished another romance, Gaston de Latour (1896.)

Pater’s style and ideas influenced Oscar Wilde, George Moore, and many other aesthetes of the 1890s.

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To burn always with this hard gem-like flame. To maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Walter Pater
Topics: Enthusiasm, Success, Passion

How shall we pass most swiftly; from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To maintain this ecstasy is success in life.
Walter Pater
Topics: Success

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Walter Pater
Topics: Music

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
Walter Pater
Topics: Art

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
Walter Pater
Topics: Books

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
Walter Pater
Topics: Opinions

Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater
Topics: Experience

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