Walter Horatio Pater gives the art critic some very pertinent advice on what constitutes true beauty in aestheticism in the general scheme of good art criticism. He describes beauty as something that has no formula, that it is something we find through our experiences, impressions and senses; through this we can, according to Pater, “see the object as it really is in itself”. Therefore, with this idea in mind, art critics should find the source of what piqued their interest in the first place, namely the impression of beauty and pleasure. Pater describes to us that the aesthetic critic must distinguish, analyze and separate all the confounding factors that led to the source of his impression and the conditions that produced it. It makes a respectable analogy to aesthetic criticism as something similar to how a chemist takes notes to describe a natural element. This is a perfect analogy since the chemist must analyze natural elements for others in a way that is both eminent and crucial to their understanding of whatever they are seeing. Its aim is therefore the same as that of the aesthetic critic, that is, to analyze the object and reduce it to its bare element; thus distilling his true purpose for being there. Finally, Pater argues that it is extremely important for an art critic to have no pre-set definition of what abstract beauty is; but rather having a certain type of attribute in one's personality, that being of one who is stimulated and in a state of childlike ecstasy at seeing any true work of art. Pater chose the Renaissance to make his points about aesthetic criticism for many reasons. It was influenced by pure intellect and imagination… middle of paper… nothing truly useful, genuine or meaningful in our truth to find the meaning of life and ourselves. He tells us readers not to submit to a superficial line of thinking that plagues philosophers like Comte, or even our own in critiquing art and finding meaning. Consequently, if we chose to follow this superficial method, we would lose our true meaning and emotional attachment to the work of art we are seeing; and so we would be without the passion and eternal flame that burns incessantly within us for the wonders of life and art. Passion for art is its final word to the viewer, as there is nothing more important than having passion for what you do and this in turn will invigorate your life, just in the same way that art authentic opens the eyes of the viewer and thus transports him into a world full of fantasy and splendor.