Walter Pater

'Walter Pater' would have signified no style, but an unslakable thirst for information, and a bustling human sympathy, and power of carrying things through.

Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914

Walter Pater famously said that "all art aspires towards the condition of music".

Has Final Destination reached its nadir? 2011

Hardcore innovation is just that: it has a core, and it burns hard and gemlike, to borrow a phrase from 19th century art critic Walter Pater.

Matthew DeBord: Innovation: When It's Phony, and When It's the Real Deal Matthew DeBord 2011

Hardcore innovation is just that: it has a core, and it burns hard and gemlike, to borrow a phrase from 19th century art critic Walter Pater.

Matthew DeBord: Innovation: When It's Phony, and When It's the Real Deal Matthew DeBord 2011

Monsman places the book within a tradition of philosophical novels such as those by Walter Pater and Thomas Carlyle, although Schreiner's book is, to my mind at least, more accessible and emotionally affecting than those.

Archive 2010-04-01 2010

Monsman places the book within a tradition of philosophical novels such as those by Walter Pater and Thomas Carlyle, although Schreiner's book is, to my mind at least, more accessible and emotionally affecting than those.

The Story of an African Farm 2010

"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music," wrote Walter Pater in The Renaissance, a collection of criticism that scandalized Oxford in the 1870s by its apparent advocacy of sensualism and momentariness.

Are Facebook's Days Numbered? 2010

Attacking it for its narrowness of class representation, as Eagleton does, seems a little unfair, certainly 'Someone who is clearly not from a Glasgow housing scheme asks: "Where is it, somewhere in Walter Pater, where he says that Leonardo says that all improvements in arts stem from a sense of dissatisfaction?"

Archive 2010-07-01 Adam Roberts 2010

"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music," wrote Walter Pater in The Renaissance, a collection of criticism that scandalized Oxford in the 1870s by its apparent advocacy of sensualism and momentariness.

Are Facebook's Days Numbered? 2010

"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music," wrote Walter Pater in The Renaissance, a collection of criticism that scandalized Oxford in the 1870s by its apparent advocacy of sensualism and momentariness.

Are Facebook's Days Numbered? 2010