Quotes by Trilling, Lionel

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, >>

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. >>

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually >>

Quotations about Arts and Artists

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make mo >>

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. >>

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the pr >>

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel