A Quote by Walter Pater

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Walter Pater

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Music Art Condition Constantly Towards

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Walter Pater
English - Critic
August 4, 1839 - July 30, 1894

All art constantly aspires to the condition of music....In its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression; they inhere in and completely saturate each other.

Walter Pater

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

George Santayana

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Joseph Conrad

Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.

Ben Okri

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

Oscar Wilde

I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of music that it aspires to.

Kevin Young

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.

Gerhard Richter

Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them,--that it was a vain endeavor?

Henry David Thoreau

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Henry David Thoreau

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Albert Einstein

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

Daniel Barenboim

The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.

Mario Botta

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

Frank Fairfield

We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art, in painting, in music. Music, everyday confronts us with a form of knowing that doesn't depend on words.