Walter Pater
“All art aspires to be music because in music all subject is absorbed into form.”
“Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.”
“To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.”
“Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.”
“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.”
“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”