What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. - Walter Pater - Quotesmemo.com

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Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

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Walter Pater

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

Courting, Forever, New Beginnings, Opinions, Science

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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

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The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.

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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

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To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. . . Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. . . For art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

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