Walter Pater Quote

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.


Studies in the History of the Renaissance (ed. 1873)


Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less...

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less...

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less...

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less...