Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.
Brad Holland

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
Ani DiFranco

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

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde

One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
Francesco Guicciardini

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Berenice Abbott

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.
Christopher Knight

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling

The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know?
Mick Ralphs

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
Salvatore Quasimodo

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