Lionel Trilling Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

  Lionel Trilling

  Art, Cynical, Immature

  In Esquire Sept. 1962. Cf. Igor Stravinsky 210:16

• Immature ists imitate. Mature ists steal.

  Lionel Trilling

  Art, Immature, Mature

• The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

  Lionel Trilling

  Art, Philosophy, Weather

  1950 The Liberal Imagination.

• It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

  Lionel Trilling

  Life, Art, Disbelief

  "A Gathering of Fugitives: New Essays (The Novel Alive or Dead)". Book by Lionel Trilling, 1956.

• We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.

  Lionel Trilling

  Art, Mistake, Reading

  "The Portable Matthew Arnold " by Lionel Trilling, Viking Press, 1949.

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