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Art imitates life. Life imitates high school. -- Brad Holland
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV. -- Ani DiFranco
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. -- Woody Allen
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. -- Berenice Abbott
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
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
Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life. -- Christopher Knight
The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know? -- Mick Ralphs
Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full." -- Robin Williams
Sometimes art imitates life. -- Michael Douglas
The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal. -- Lionel Trilling
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. -- Oscar Wilde
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. -- Oscar Wilde
Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements. -- Bruce Willis
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
Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set. -- Emily Rose
For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature. -- Octavio Paz
I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much you can do on your own, so you have to keep learning. Art imitates life. -- Preity Zinta
Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art. -- Lana Del Rey
A madman imitates nature, but a wise man draws a metaphor from it. -- Bauvard
If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked. -- Christie Watson
Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it. -- Frances Ann Lebowitz
Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive. -- Melissa Bank
He'll be a minister in Spain some day, or, at the very least, ambassador to Washington, he's exactly the kind of pretentious fool with just a thin veneer of cordiality that the Right produces by the dozen and which the Left reproduces and imitates whenever they're in power, as if they were the victims of some form of contagion. -- Javier Marías
A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It "consents," so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree -- Thomas Merton
Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind. -- bell hooks
Nature imitates mathematics. -- Gian-Carlo Rota
Talent imitates, genius steals. -- T. S. Eliot
Nature constantly imitates art. -- Oscar Wilde
Talent imitates, but genius steals. -- T. S. Eliot
Life imitates art -- but badly. -- Edward Abbey
Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Life imitates art but art intimidates life. -- Dana Gould
Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness. -- Joseph Joubert
Whoever imitates a people is one of them. -- Abu Dawood
At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. -- Lionel Trilling
The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes, -- T. S. Eliot
Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I feel like art imitates life and life imitates art. -- Tia Mowry
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies. -- Aristotle
Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle. -- John Updike
In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature. -- Aristotle
Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take. -- Alan Joshua
Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it. -- Frances Ann Lebowitz
The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod. -- Soseki Natsume
The successful publishing house is the one that can guess ahead, not the one that imitates the past. -- Helen Jacobs
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites. -- Aristotle
At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them. -- Plato
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
I used to be a huge fan. "The Simpsons" taught me a lot about filmmaking. It imitates film, but it's drawn, so everything is super clear -- Dagur Kari
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
The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression. -- Joshua Reynolds
No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a channel of communication closed to painter, mathematician, musician, film-maker. -- Storm Jameson
Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement. -- Herbert Spencer

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