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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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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

Category:
legal
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Lionel Trilling
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Other Quotes from
Art
category

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. – John Kenneth Galbraith

Category:
Art

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. – Madeleine LEngle

Category:
Art

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. – Theodore Bikel

Category:
Art

Painting is easy when you dont know how, but very difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas

Category:
Art

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When you cease to dream you cease to live. – Malcolm Forbes

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