The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Well, I'm going up and up and up - and nobody's going to pull me down!
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.
In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt.
Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long before economic dislocations became serious, was inner go. Rome’s life was now an imitation of life: a mere holding on. Security was the watchword – as if life knew any other stability than through constant change, or any form of security except through a constant willingness to take risks
You feel touched by a movie in a good or bad way or you have a strong reaction to something that's totally artificial, to an imitation of life. But that imitation of life that you see on the screen can affect you almost as if it was real.
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