Lionel Trilling quote #23

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. - Lionel Trilling

Copycats. There are different kinds. The worst ones are in art. To make a piece of art you need to live it first and then to write it. It will come, but something have to cause it first, a gesture, a scene.

When it comes to immature artists that can't come to the fore in my opinion because they have no experience, they don't know how to transfer something like uncut diamond. I mean, maturity of artist is not about his years because he can be immature in 50 as well as in 20 years, but in 50 years that would mean he's not an artist. When he's without idea he's looking for it in another act so he doesn't have his own style.

On the other side there are mature artists who don't have ideas anymore, and it is understood that they once had, but they have been overcome, forgotten as the time had passed, but that's not the reason to take something what ain't their. That's the easiest thing to them because they already have their own style, it's easier to believe that thing is their.


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