Walter Pater Quotes About Beauty

Quotes about: Beauty

• What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

  Walter Pater

  Beauty, Beautiful, Important

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.2, Courier Corporation

• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

  Walter Pater

  Beauty, Art, Excellence

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Walter Pater

  Beauty, Art, Abstract

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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