Famous Quotes

"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."

Lionel Trilling on Art

More quotes about Art

• "True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

  Albert Einstein on Art

• "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

  Vincent Van Gogh on Art

• "The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."

  Abraham Lincoln on Art

• "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

  Aristotle on Art

• "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

  Oscar Wilde on Art

More quotes by Lionel Trilling

• "We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."

• "We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health."

• "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."

• "Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process."