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title: "40 Imitates Quotes by 36 authors"
description: "Browse 40 Imitates quotes by 36 authors. Discover the best Imitates sayings and thoughts."
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> [Whoever imitates a people is one of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abu-dawood/whoever-imitates-a-people-is-one-of-them/)

[Abu Dawood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abu-dawood/)

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> [Nature constantly imitates art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/nature-constantly-imitates-art/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-holland/art-imitates-life-life-imitates-high-school/)

[Brad Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brad-holland/)

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> [Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-lord-tennyson/nature-so-far-as-in-her-lies-imitates-god/)

[Alfred Lord Tennyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-lord-tennyson/)

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> [Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/life-imitates-art-far-more-than-art-imitates-life/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/art-imitates-nature-in-this-not-to-dare-is-to-dwindle/)

[John Updike](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-updike/)

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> [Life imitates art -- but badly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/life-imitates-art-but-badly/)

[Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/)

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> [Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ani-difranco/art-may-imitate-life-but-life-imitates-tv/)

[Ani DiFranco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ani-difranco/)

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> [An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fran-ois-ren-de-chateaubriand/an-original-writer-is-not-one-who-imitates-nobody-but-one-whom-nobody/)

[François-René de Chateaubriand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fran-ois-ren-de-chateaubriand/)

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> [Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fran-lebowitz/perhaps-the-least-cheering-statement-ever-made-on-the-subject-of-art/)

[Fran Lebowitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fran-lebowitz/)

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> [The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-imagination-imitates-it-is-the-critical-spirit-that-creates/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lana-del-rey/like-a-groupie-incognito-posing-as-a-real-singer-life-imitates-art/)

[Lana Del Rey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lana-del-rey/)

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> [Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/berenice-abbott/photography-can-never-grow-up-if-it-imitates-some-other-medium-it-has/)

[Berenice Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/berenice-abbott/)

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> [“Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn’t looking.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/life-imitates-art-but-clumsily-copying-its-movements-when-it-thinks/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francesco-guicciardini/one-who-imitates-what-is-bad-always-goes-beyond-his-model-while-one/)

[Francesco Guicciardini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francesco-guicciardini/)

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> [I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/preity-zinta/i-m-an-actor-and-i-keep-observing-people-and-their-reactions-to/)

[Preity Zinta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/preity-zinta/)

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> [Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-knight/television-is-much-better-crafted-today-then-in-the-70s-the-content/)

[Christopher Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-knight/)

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> [The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salvatore-quasimodo/the-writer-of-stories-or-of-novels-settles-on-men-and-imitates-them/)

[Salvatore Quasimodo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salvatore-quasimodo/)

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> [The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gilbert/the-magnetic-force-is-animate-or-imitates-a-soul-in-many-respects-it/)

[William Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gilbert/)

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> [Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melissa-bank/nice-i-say-realizing-only-afterward-that-i-ve-mimicked-her-a-bad/)

[Melissa Bank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melissa-bank/)

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> [There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/there-are-three-arts-which-are-concerned-with-all-things-one-which/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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> [Not only does art imitate life but life imitates art. Perhaps we not only learn about life from stories, perhaps we make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramona-koval/not-only-does-art-imitate-life-but-life-imitates-art-perhaps-we-not/)

[Ramona Koval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramona-koval/)

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> [It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fran-lebowitz/it-is-in-fact-safe-to-assume-that-more-often-than-not-life-imitates/)

[Fran Lebowitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fran-lebowitz/)

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> [Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/music-directly-imitates-the-passions-or-states-of-the-soul-when-one/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> ["Art Imitates life," of course, is that phrase by Oscar Wilde. I called that song "Art Imitates Life" because Oh No was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/talib-kweli/art-imitates-life-of-course-is-that-phrase-by-oscar-wilde-i-called/)

[Talib Kweli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/talib-kweli/)

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> [It's very interesting how life imitates art, and art imitates life; I find, whenever I read scenes of some magnitude, I'm like,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katherine-moennig/it-s-very-interesting-how-life-imitates-art-and-art-imitates-life-i/)

[Katherine Moennig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katherine-moennig/)

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> [“I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claes-oldenburg/i-am-for-an-art-that-imitates-the-human-that-is-comic-if-necessary-or/)

[Claes Oldenburg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claes-oldenburg/)

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> [Nature imitates mathematics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-rota/nature-imitates-mathematics/)

[Gian-Carlo Rota](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-rota/)

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> [Sometimes art imitates life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-douglas/sometimes-art-imitates-life/)

[Michael Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-douglas/)

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> [Life imitates art and back around.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/statik-selektah/life-imitates-art-and-back-around/)

[Statik Selektah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/statik-selektah/)

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> [Life imitates art but art intimidates life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gould/life-imitates-art-but-art-intimidates-life/)

[Dana Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gould/)

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> [At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pramoedya-ananta-toer/at-the-beginning-of-all-growth-everything-imitates/)

[Pramoedya Ananta Toer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pramoedya-ananta-toer/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-rose/art-imitates-life-it-s-definitely-helpful-to-feel-that-way-you-feel/)

[Emily Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-rose/)

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> [Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dante-alighieri/art-as-far-as-it-is-able-follows-nature-as-a-pupil-imitates-his/)

[Dante Alighieri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dante-alighieri/)

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> [There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/there-is-no-original-or-primary-gender-a-drag-imitates-but-gender-is/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mick-ralphs/the-parrot-s-so-funny-he-imitates-me-and-i-don-t-even-realize-he-s/)

[Mick Ralphs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mick-ralphs/)

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> [He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francesco-guicciardini/he-who-imitates-what-is-evil-always-goes-beyond-the-example-that-is/)

[Francesco Guicciardini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francesco-guicciardini/)

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> [Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its 'manner,' in its process, which are nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-claudel/art-imitates-nature-not-in-its-effects-as-such-but-in-its-causes-in/)

[Paul Claudel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-claudel/)

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> [As a child, I think everybody imitates their favorite cartoon character in some form or another when they're playing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samoa-joe/as-a-child-i-think-everybody-imitates-their-favorite-cartoon/)

[Samoa Joe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samoa-joe/)

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> [He who imitates evil always goes beyond the example that is set, On the contrary he who imitates good always falls a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jake-roberts/he-who-imitates-evil-always-goes-beyond-the-example-that-is-set-on/)

[Jake Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jake-roberts/)

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