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

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

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Humor
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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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Art
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Art

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well. – Tony Snow

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Art

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. – W. H. Auden

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Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action. – David Seabury

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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. – Henry Ford

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