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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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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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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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Other Quotes from
Art
category

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. – Jim Morrison

Category:
Art

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful. – Nicolas Chamfort

Category:
Art

Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because hes the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways hes the weirdest (which is saying a lot when youre talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers). – Jerry Saltz

Category:
Art

I dont want to be interesting. I want to be good. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Category:
Art

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Category:
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Category:
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. – Bruce Barton

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The one thing my mom will let me get is a nice shoe sometimes. – Chloe Moretz

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mom