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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Bruce Willis

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Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure. ↗

— James Wolcott

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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. ↗

— William Morris Hunt

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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

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We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent. ↗

— Bob Livingston

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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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