This is one of my wall quotes.
Consider the nature of art as you make it.

#art #music #walterpater #quote

"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."

✒ #WalterPater, English essayist, literary and art critic, and fiction writer, was #BOTD 4 August 1839. An influential aesthete and master stylist. #Art #Culture #Literature

Walter Pater English writer and critic Walter Pater was BOTD in 1839. Born in London to a middle-class family, he developed an early interest in art and architecture. After studying classics at Oxford Universit…

Discreetly gay English writer and critic Walter Pater, whose “Art for Art’s Sake” theories inspired the Pre-Raphaelites painters and Decadent writers including #OscarWilde, was BOTD in 1839. #walterpater #bornonthisday #supergays #artforartssake

A Tale of Two Cemeteries HEREsay #3: Walter Pater's Desecrated Grave

In this week’s HEREsay, we wander into Oxford’s Holywell Cemetery to visit Walter Pater’s desecrated grave. #arthistory #walterpater

Pleased to see my review of 'Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions: New Perspectives on Walter Pater' (2017) in the British Association for Victorian Studies December 2018 newsletter - time to get back to reading Pater again? #BAVS #Victorianstudies #WalterPater