Top 45 Imitate Art Quotes
#1. How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.
Stephen King
#2. Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen
#3. At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#5. Life doesn't imitate art ... it is art!
John Lennon
#6. I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to BE art.
Carrie Fisher
#7. Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand
Dan Brown
#8. The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion,
George Inness
#9. The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
Daniel Boulud
#11. To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare's mirror is all that is needed for it. But by imitation we enlarge nature itself, we become nature or we discover in ourselves nature's active part.
William Carlos Williams
#12. Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
Edward Hirsch
#13. The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances in the sciences.
John Cage
#14. Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#15. It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected; too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself.
Henry David Thoreau
#17. The best man can do is imitate nature with art. While nature can devour art and man.
A.E. Marling
#18. Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#19. Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?
Woody Allen
#20. But I think it will bring you something besides this, something that is the knowledge of real strength in art: not that you should imitate the works of these men; but their artistic spirit, their artistic attitude, I think you should absorb that.
Oscar Wilde
#21. We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.
John F. Carlson
#22. The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
Edgar Degas
#23. 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 the stories we tell ourselves about the things that happen to us.
Ramona Koval
#24. The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,
Banksy
#25. Why so? one would think at such a time you would most exult in your privilege of being able to imitate the various brilliant and delightful touches of nature.
Anne Bronte
#26. Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated.
William Zinsser
#27. Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble it may be, art cannot perform a single one of the miracles of nature. And besides, why imitate nature when it can be perceived by all those endowed with senses?
Kahlil Gibran
#28. Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Christian Slater
#29. We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the way a plant produces its fruit, not depict. We want to produce directly, not indirectly. Since there is not a trace of abstraction in this art we call it concrete art.
Hans Arp
#31. I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art's sake.
Gustave Courbet
#32. In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles ... Contemporary or postmodernist art ... will involve the necessary failure of art and the aesthetic, the failure of the new, the imprisonment in the past.
Fredric Jameson
#33. If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.
Robert Pinsky
#34. The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love without its being returned - which, perhaps, is the only way of feeling it permanently.
Marthe Bibesco
#35. When I look at the 'Rocky Balboa' film when I played the undisputed heavyweight champion, I feel like art is going to imitate life. I played the champ in a movie and I'm going to become the champ in reality.
Antonio Tarver
#36. Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
Ani DiFranco
#37. Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.
Jose Bernardo
#38. I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them?
Camryn Manheim
#39. No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. - Variant: There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.
Marcus Aurelius
#40. Life imitates art and art imitates life until both imitate imitation - Reality TV.
Brian Spellman
#42. Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#43. No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#45. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dali
