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Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.
— Bruce Willis
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
— Dante Alighieri
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
— Berenice Abbott
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
— Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take.
— Alan Joshua
At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.
— Fran Lebowitz
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
— Oscar Wilde
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
— Ani DiFranco
The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.
— William Gilbert
One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
— Francesco Guicciardini
We are imitating Nature, who is variable; and he who imitates her cannot be blamed.
— Michael A. Ledeen
Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking.
— Neil Gaiman
Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes,
— T. S. Eliot
The successful publishing house is the one that can guess ahead, not the one that imitates the past.
— Helen Jacobs
Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
— John Updike
Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.
— Brad Holland
The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
— Lionel Trilling
Life imitates art but badly. — Edward Abbey
Life imitates art but art intimidates life.
— Dana Gould
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
— Woody Allen
Whoever imitates a people is one of them.
— Abu Dawood
Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
— Joseph Joubert
Life Imitates Art
— Oscar Wilde
The theater has been called the pulse of the people.
— Abigail Adams
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
— Salvatore Quasimodo
If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.
— Christie Watson
Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
— Miguel De Cervantes
The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
— Lionel Trilling
Talent imitates, but genius steals.
— T. S. Eliot
Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.
— Saint John Chrysostom
The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.
— Soseki Natsume
He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.
— Francesco Guicciardini
I feel like life imitates art, or art imitates life. I always take on roles that I'm passionate about.
— Tia Mowry
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
— Judith Butler
At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
