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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. - Lionel Trilling

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. – Lionel Trilling

Other quotes by Lionel Trilling

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

Category:
Imagination
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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
Author
Lionel Trilling
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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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Other Quotes from
Art
category

Personality is everything in art and poetry. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Category:
Art

Art is art, even when unsuccessful. – Danish Proverb

Category:
Art

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

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. – Camille Paglia

Category:
Art

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Truth is on the side of the oppressed. – Malcolm X

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Truth

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria. – Richard Dawkins

Category:
Time

I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, Id cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark. – Selma Blair

Category:
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Im trying to have my own thing, and I dont know if its even possible. I didnt realize so many people actually think Im trying to be like my dad. I read comments like Shes no Elvis. Im not trying to be. I never set out to be. – Lisa Marie Presley

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dad