What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. - Walter Pater
It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively. - Walter Pater
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to distinguish the matter from the form, and the understanding can always make this distinction, yet it is the constant effort of art to obliterate it. - Walter Pater