Walter Pater Quotes:
Ocupation: Critic
Life: August 4, 1839 - July 30, 1894
Birthday: August 4
Death: July 30
The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.
source: Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.113, Simon and Schuster
topic: Creativity, Exercise, Imagination, Painting And Poetry, Artistic Genius
