Top 18 Imitates Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Imitates Quotes from famous people such as Francesco Guicciardini, Woody Allen, Nelsan Ellis, Tia Mowry, Brad Holland, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his mod

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
Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen
When you deal with Alan Ball, you’re dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.
Nelsan Ellis
I feel like life imitates art, or art imitates life. I always take on roles that I’m passionate about.
Tia Mowry
Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.
Brad Holland
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde
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
Art imitates life. It’s definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you’re leading a show and you’re on a set.
Emily Rose
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
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde
It’s very interesting how life imitates art, and art imitates life; I find, whenever I read scenes of some magnitude, I’m like, ‘Oh, I feel like I’ve experienced this,’ or ‘I am experiencing this,’ or ‘I might start to experience it soon.’
Katherine Moennig
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Berenice Abbott
The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling
Sometimes art imitates life.
Michael Douglas
Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.
Honoré Daumier
Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in the upper 3000 feet, and as many as 80-90% of the animals you catch can make light. The biomimetic lure that I developed imitates one of these – a common deep sea jellyfish called Atolla.
Edith Widder
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
I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
Edith Widder