One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sometimes art imitates life.
Art consists of reshaping life, but it does not create life nor cause life.
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.
What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called 'cliche.'
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.