“Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define be...” — Walter Pater Quote

“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.”

“The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.”

“And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.”

“I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music.”

“When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.”

“I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world.”