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

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. – Lionel Trilling

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Equality
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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. – Lionel Trilling

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legal
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. – Lionel Trilling

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Imagination
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Other Quotes from
Art
category

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world. – Garry Kasparov

Category:
Art

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included. – Jerry Saltz

Category:
Art

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Category:
Art

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. – William Morris

Category:
Art

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you. – Erich Fromm

Category:
Love

Populism is not a style, its a peoples rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country – including our economy, government, media, and environment. – Jim Hightower

Category:
Government

Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Love

Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. – George MacDonald

Category:
Age