Walter Pater Quotes

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

Walter Pater

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 4, 1839 - July 30, 1894

Topics

BeautyPowerBeautifulImportant

I'm trying to work on my Spanish.

Jimmy Gomez

WorkTryingSpanish

Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages.

Jo Cox

ProudIndependentGatheringVillages

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

Andre Kertesz

MomentFeelRhythmEverythingEvery

I don't think the White House has always reflected the textures and flavors of this country.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

ThinkHouseWhiteCountryAlways

As paradoxical as life would have it, some of these same persons who were beaten are terrorized by the Nazis are assisting the die-hards of the Citizens' Councils in bringing about economic pressure on Negroes who pay their poll taxes and register in Humphry County.

Medgar Evers

LifePressureSameTaxesPayWould

People get some success, they get some money, they get some power, and they put themselves on this pedestal above other people. They forget people and try to fit in with their new crews they think they need to be around with. I didn't believe that. I'm still human being.

Max Holloway

SuccessPowerMoneyPeopleBelieve

One day, I woke up, and I was on CBS in front of millions of people, and I'm like, 'Oh man, I don't know anything.' The only thing I'd ever technically studied was filmmaking.

Matthew Gray Gubler

DayManPeopleFilmmakingKnowUp

A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not always the usual suspects either, the high achievers.

Matt de la Pena

CreativeWritingFindCountryMeet

It's just like - you know, you read the New Testament and you read about all the things, and you think, 'Oh, that's not going on in our community.' Oh yes it is.

Jeffrey C. Mateer

CommunityThinkYouNewKnowGoing

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.

John Russell

BeautifulPeopleWorldStandBetter

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.

Simon McBurney

TimeTheatrePlaceMindsAudience

Even if everything else is downplayed, I'll wear good shoes.

Tori Amos

GoodShoesEverythingWearEven

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