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Quote by Lionel Trilling
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. - Lionel Trilling

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. – Lionel Trilling

Other quotes by Lionel Trilling

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. – Lionel Trilling

Category:
Obscurity
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Lionel Trilling
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. – Lionel Trilling

Category:
Humor
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Lionel Trilling
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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. – Lionel Trilling

Category:
Paradise, Utopia
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Lionel Trilling
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Art
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. – Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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Art

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration. – Freddie Mercury

Category:
Art

Space is the breath of art. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Category:
Art

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