I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time. — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published.... You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him.… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material,… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Whenever we show others the goodness of God, whenever we follow our Teacher by imitating His posture of humble and ready service,… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him. — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my… — Toots Thielemans Copy Share Image
You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating. — Sailor Jerry Copy Share Image
All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made… — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My advice to any budding artist is never to be satisfied with imitating others. This is but a means to an end.… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Because of jealousy you are in constant suffering; you become mean to others. And because of jealousy you start becoming phony, because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I don't know what will become of this piece. Our brave critics will no doubt charge me with imitating Ravel's Bolero. Too… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff. — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them. — Gene Veith Copy Share Image
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
