ArtLionel Trilling Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. – Lionel Trilling Art Quotes Artists Quotes Imitate Quotes Immature Quotes Mature Quotes Steal Quotes Art is anything people do with distinction. Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Bertie Carvel I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it’s been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day. – Bertie Carvel
Santiago Calatrava I understand and accept criticisms of my work, provided they are done with professional criteria and arguments. – Santiago Calatrava
Jack Schwartz The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department. – Jack Schwartz
Edith Wharton After all, one knows one’s weak points so well, that it’s rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. – Edith Wharton
Paul Giamatti I did a movie called ‘American Splendor’, based on the comic book writer Harvey Pekar. – Paul Giamatti
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