Joel Hill wrote:

>I ran across a quote ... attributed
>to Walter Pater (should I know of him?) the quote is:
>
> "all art constantly aspires toward the condition of music."
>
>Are any of you Listers familiar with Mr. Pater or his quote?  Comments?

fwiw, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (2nd.  ed.) says that it is
from his work *The Renaissance*.  Seems like nonsense to me.

Larry Blaine