Art Quote by Lionel Trilling Download Open image “Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.” — Lionel Trilling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artists Steal Immature Mature
Insecurity prevents young artists from 'flying' and older artists from being 'down to earth.' Young artists should work on their confidence and the older… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest. — Andrew Jack Copy Share Image
I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
A primary function of art andthought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“...perhaps we have never been more than vocal and perhaps soon we can hope to be no more than thoughtful...” — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
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