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Tag Name "Imitates" (39)

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Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.
Fran Lebowitz
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An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
François-René de Chateaubriand
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At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.
Herbert Spencer
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Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
Joseph Addison
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Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.
Lana Del Rey
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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 imitates its predators to survive.
Melissa Bank
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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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At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another the writer conveys his experience of life along a channel of communication closed to painter, mathematician, musician, film-maker.
Storm Jameson
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Whoever imitates a people is one of them.
Abu Dawood
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Talent imitates, genius steals.
T. S. Eliot
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Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I feel like art imitates life and life imitates art.
Tia Mowry
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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 withthe same passion and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.
Aristotle
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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 an organic body.
William Gilbert
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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.
Berenice Abbott
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The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do.
Yukio Mishima
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Life imitates art but art intimidates life.
Dana Gould
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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 were, God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri
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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 our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.
Fran Lebowitz
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In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years - starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century.
Frederick Lenz
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Nature imitates mathematics.
Gian-Carlo Rota
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