Art Imitation Quotes

Life imitates art -- but badly.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

Sometimes art imitates life.

Life imitates art and back around.

I always say that cinema reflects life, not the other way round.

"Art Imitates life," of course, is that phrase by Oscar Wilde. I called that song "Art Imitates Life" because Oh No was in the studio and he actually came up with that hook. When I was trying to figure out a name for the record, it just kind of made sense.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.

All art is but imitation of nature.

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.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

I feel like life imitates art, or art imitates life. I always take on roles that I'm passionate about.

The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because these artists of the sixteenth century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?

I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.

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.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.

Now life is imitating art.

For my art GCSE, I did a screen print of the Queen's head that was basically an Andy Warhol rip-off, but I didn't realise.

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.