All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
— Walter Pater in 1877
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(i.e. the arts seek to unify subject matter and form, and music is the only art in which subject and form are seemingly one).
First appeared in an essay on 'The School of Giorgione' (Fortnightly Review, 1877), added to the third edition of The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1888).
