things-and

Updated: June 23, 2025

The world he sets before us so engagingly has its care for purity, its cleanly preferences, in what one is to SEE in the outsides of things-and there is something, a sign, a memento, at the least, of what makes life really valuable, even in that. There, is my simple notion, wholly womanly perhaps, but which I may hold by, of the purpose of the arts. August 1717. And yet!

Walter Pater - Imaginary Portraits