Walter Pater Quotes


What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.


Citations

Walter Pater, 1839-1894, English Essayist & Critic, The Renaissance, 1873

Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations

Related Quotes

Walter Pater
Walter Pater
  • Born: August 4, 1839
  • Died: July 30, 1894
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Academic, Essayist, Writer

Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, literary and art critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His works on Renaissance subjects were popular but controversial in his times.