Walter Horatio Pater

Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was an English prose-writer, specially studious of word, phrase, and style, born in London and lived chiefly in London. He studied at Oxford, and became a Fellow of Brasenose College. He wrote studies in the "History of the Renaissance," "Marcus the Epicurean," "Imaginary Portraits," "Appreciations," along with an essay on "Style". Literary criticism was his forte.

Wisdom & Quotes

• All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

- Giorgione, in Studies in the History of the Renaissance

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

- The Renaissance, 'Conclusion'

Charles Sanders Peirce