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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

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

Category:
Imagination
Author
Lionel Trilling
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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

The first mistake of art is to assume that its serious. – Lester Bangs

Category:
Art

If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by. – Jerry Saltz

Category:
Art

Football is an art, like dancing is an art – but only when its well done does it become an art. – Arsene Wenger

Category:
Art

Im afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. – Andy Warhol

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads. – John Moody

Category:
relationship

If I dont get food in my mouth, Im still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I dont get arrested for indecent exposure, Im happy. Im worried about keeping my hair, not how its combed. – Michael J. Fox

Category:
Food

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. – Mitch Hedberg

Category:
funny

Not being known doesnt stop the truth from being true. – Richard Bach

Category:
Truth