"The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal." — Lionel Trilling

"The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal."

— Lionel Trilling

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36 Quotes by Lionel Trilling

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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive…
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas…
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the…
At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it…

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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