A Quote by John Updike

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

John Updike

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Art Dare Imitates Nature

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John Updike
American - Novelist
March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

Nature constantly imitates art.

Oscar Wilde

I feel like life imitates art, or art imitates life. I always take on roles that I'm passionate about.

Tia Mowry

Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its 'manner,' in its process, which are nothing but a participation in and a derivation of actual objects, of the Art of God himself.

Paul Claudel

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

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

Aristotle

"Art Imitates life," of course, is that phrase by Oscar Wilde. I called that song "Art Imitates Life" because Oh No was in the studio and he actually came up with that hook. When I was trying to figure out a name for the record, it just kind of made sense.

Talib Kweli

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

Bruce Willis

It's very interesting how life imitates art, and art imitates life; I find, whenever I read scenes of some magnitude, I'm like, 'Oh, I feel like I've experienced this,' or 'I am experiencing this,' or 'I might start to experience it soon.'

Katherine Moennig

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.