Imitates Quotes

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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 original. — Judith Butler
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
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. — Woody Allen
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. — Berenice Abbott
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;… — Aristotle
Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle. — John Updike
The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. — Lionel Trilling
Life imitates art -- but badly. — Edward Abbey
I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which is by fits… — John Ashbery
... with Voodoo Child somebody was filming when we started doing that. We did that about three times because they wanted to film us in… — Jimi Hendrix
Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Whoever imitates a people is one of them. — Abu Dawood
Life imitates art but art intimidates life. — Dana Gould
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… — Francesco Guicciardini
Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Road racing imitates life, the way it would be without the corruptive influence of civilization. When you see an enemy lying on the ground, whatâ€™s… — Tim Krabbe
Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements. — Bruce Willis
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little… — Samuel Johnson

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