Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.Walter Pater
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
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The love of art for art's sake.
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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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Or if we begin with the inward world of thought and feeling, the whirlpool is still more rapid, the flame more eager and devouring.
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