Best Lionel Trilling Quotes
- This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so… All
- It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. Art
- Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. Advantage
- Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. Architecture
- Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. Act
- We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. Equal
- The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the… Acceptance
- The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal. Artist
- This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. Academicism
- Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty Account
- A primary function of art andthought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him… Art