Quotes by Walter Pater

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To treat life in the spirit of art is to make of life a thing in which means and ends are identified; and to encourage such treatment is the true meaning of art and poetry.

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If art is devoted to the increase of human happiness, the salvation of the oppressed, the intensification of feelings and mutual esteem, or the revelation of new or old truths upon ourselves and our connections with the world, so as to strengthen us during this hiatus... it will be true art. ; if above these values ​​which I have summed up... it contains something of the soul of humanity, it discovers its rightful, harmonious place in the great architecture of our life.