 | Brent Shannon - 2006 - 265 pages
...said to mark o / \ ' ' ' °* * g the beginning of modern consumer culture"; his pronouncement that "Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...the highest quality to your moments as they pass" (190) can be alternately read as "a textbook example of advertising copy rather than an original aesthetic... | |
 | Benjamin R. Barber - 2007 - 414 pages
...towards the human spirit is to rouse, to startle it to a life of sharp and eager observation. . . . The poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love...art for its own sake, has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass" (cited in... | |
 | Gowan Dawson - 2007 - 18 pages
...(1873), which had avowed that in fulfilling the 'desire for beauty ... art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake'.60 While such Paterian overtones were presumably not intended by Huxley, they at least suggest... | |
 | Lee Oser - 2007 - 96 pages
...evicts the landlord, Pater leaves his dreamy harvest at the gate, "for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake."1' Pater elaborates his moral outlook in a strange genre that he called "imaginary portraits."... | |
 | Gail Marshall - 2007 - 229 pages
...of the History of the Renaissance advocated 'pure perception', claiming that what was important was 'the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they... | |
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Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments 
