Top 90 Imitates Quotes & Sayings

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

Talent imitates, genius steals.

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Whoever imitates a people is one of them.

One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

I feel like art imitates life and life imitates art.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

As a child, I think everybody imitates their favorite cartoon character in some form or another when they're playing.

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.

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.

Talent imitates, but genius steals.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

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.

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.

Nature imitates mathematics.

The successful publishing house is the one that can guess ahead, not the one that imitates the past.

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

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.'

Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.

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

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.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.

Sometimes art imitates life.

Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear at one moment from the point of view of a single spectator. This is the effect of perspective. Nothing of this sort existed in prehistory.

Nature constantly imitates art.

Life imitates art and back around.

When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.

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.

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?

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

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

"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.

Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.

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

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.

If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.

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.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God.

Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.

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.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

Only Zorbas become Buddhas - and Buddha was never a monk, A monk is one who has never been a Zorba and has become enchanted by the words of Buddhas. A monk is an imitator, he is false, pseudo. He imitates Buddhas. He may be Christian, he may be Buddhist, he may be a Hindu - that doesn't make much difference - but he imitates Buddhas.

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.

Life imitates art -- but badly.

The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.