Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

Walter Pater · Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), Conclusion

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Walter Pater · Appreciations (1889), Postscript

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

Walter Pater · Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), Conclusion

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Walter Pater

More Life Quotes

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at its conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

Albert Einstein · From a tribute to Paul Langevin, 1947.

Into each life some rain must fall.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · The source reads: “Into each life some rain must fall, / Some days must be dark and dreary.” · From the poem "The Rainy Day"; the next line is "some days must be dark and dreary."

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. There is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.

Albert Einstein · The opening of What I Believe, 1930.

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“Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.”

“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”

“Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.”

“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.”

“Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at its conclusion it may appear as a work of art?”

“Into each life some rain must fall.”

“Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. There is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.”