It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves offthat continual vanishing away, that strange, perpetual weaving and unweaving of ourselves.
About This Quote
About Walter Pater
Walter Pater was a 19th-century English writer, critic and essayist. Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), revised as The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1877), in which he outlined his approach to art and advocated an ideal of the intense inner life, was taken by many as a manifesto of Aestheticism. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Art — Creativity, expression, and the role of art in society
- Beauty — Appreciating aesthetics, grace, and the sublime
- Philosophy — Deep thoughts on existence, knowledge, and the nature of reality