Imitates Quotes

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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 our lives through… — Ramona Koval
Only Zorbas become Buddhas - and Buddha was never a monk, A monk is one who has never been a Zorba and has become enchanted… — Rajneesh
Talent imitates, but genius steals. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes, — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Nature imitates mathematics. — Gian-Carlo Rota
Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it. — Fran Lebowitz
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. — Salvatore Quasimodo
Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a… — Robin Williams
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. — William Gilbert
The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod. — Soseki Natsume
The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes… — Yukio Mishima
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… — Joshua Reynolds
Nature constantly imitates art. — Oscar Wilde
The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in… — Thorstein Veblen
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… — Sigfried Giedion
The Ruffed Pandanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imitates Winston Churchill and Tommy Cooper on one leg.… — Mike Harding
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV. — Ani DiFranco
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. — Oscar Wilde
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. — Oscar Wilde
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. — Oscar Wilde

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