Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
As a child, I think everybody imitates their favorite cartoon character in some form or another when they're playing. — Samoa Joe Copy Share Image
He who imitates evil always goes beyond the example that is set, On the contrary he who imitates good always falls a… — Jake Roberts Copy Share Image
He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
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… — Mick Ralphs Copy Share Image
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… — Emily Rose Copy Share Image
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Not only does art imitate life but life imitates art. Perhaps we not only learn about life from stories, perhaps we make… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
“I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
It's very interesting how life imitates art, and art imitates life; I find, whenever I read scenes of some magnitude, I'm like,… — Katherine Moennig Copy Share Image
"Art Imitates life," of course, is that phrase by Oscar Wilde. I called that song "Art Imitates Life" because Oh No was… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to… — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them. — Plato Copy Share Image
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel… — Christopher Knight Copy Share Image
Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its 'manner,' in its process, which are nothing… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
