Life Imitates Art Quotes & Sayings

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

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take. — Alan Joshua

He made his own silent screams then and tried to die. But I held him there. — Mark Lawrence

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking. — Neil Gaiman

I feel like art imitates life and life imitates art. — Tia Mowry

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

Life imitates art
but badly. — Edward Abbey

"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. — Talib Kweli

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. — Woody Allen

The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world. — Joseph Campbell

Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art. — Lana Del Rey

I think it is the art of the glimpse. If the novel is like an intricate Renaissance painting, the short story is an impressionist painting. It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more. It is concerned with the total exclusion of meaninglessness. Life, on the other hand, is meaningless most of the time. The novel imitates life, where the short story is bony, and cannot wander. It is essential art. — William Trevor

Life imitates art but art intimidates life. — Dana Gould

Art imitates life. Life imitates high school. — Brad Holland

Life imitates art and art imitates life until both imitate imitation - Reality TV. — Brian Spellman

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

Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take. — Alan Joshua

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

Possible Ending #16 (Life Imitates Art Imitates Life Imitates Art Imitates): I'd seen this movie. Obvious ending: outright betrayal, lesson learned, life is heartbreak, people who mean well still fuck you over, everyone's sad, greedy, looking out for number one, no consideration for the fragile fat boy whose displayed cynicism only masks a deeper hope that everyone's okay, will ultimately end up all right, that love exists, that happiness may not be stable but at least comes in bursts, that everything worthwhile wasn't just a self-created illusion. — Adam Wilson

Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained. — Ibn Taymiyyah

That life sometimes imitates art is a mere Oscar Wilde-ish curiosity; that it should set about to do so in such unseemly haste that between notes and novel (not to mention between the drafted and the printed page) what had been fiction becomes idle fact, invention history--disconcerting! Especially to a fictionist who, like yours truly, had long since turned his professional back on literary realism in favour of the fabulous irreal, and only in this latest enterprise had projected, not without misgiving, a detente with the realistic tradition. It is as if Reality, a mistress too long ignored, must now settle scores with her errant lover. — John Barth

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

The growth of intimacy will teach us how to love - both ourselves and the other person. If we will allow ourselves to practice the skills of intimacy, we will learn to love. Boundaries protect love and intimacy. Certain behaviors support the integrity of intimacy. Other behaviors, harm, disrupt, or reverse, intimacy. By using skills that promote intimacy, boundaries are created that protect the relationship. — Anne Katherine

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

I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself. — Claes Oldenburg

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

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

I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much you can do on your own, so you have to keep learning. Art imitates life. — Preity Zinta

Life Imitates Art — Oscar Wilde

run up the hillside, flanked by closely clustered two-story — Malcolm Gladwell

The theater has been called the pulse of the people. — Abigail Adams

Dear bullies, see that young boy you made fun of for crying? Last night his best friend committed suicide. See the girl you called fat? She's starving herself. See the old man you just made fun of cause of the ugly scars? He fought for our country. Post this if you're against bullying. I bet 95% of you won't. — Marija Not Sure If She Penned It But I Snagged It From Her I Love It