Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take.
– Alan Joshua
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- I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction. – Matthew S Williams
- Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. – Alan Moore
- Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science. – C JoyBell C
- Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art. – Lana Del Rey
- Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn’t looking. – Neil Gaiman
- Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. – Susan Sontag
- All portraits reveal both the the painter and the person painted. In many ways all paintings are self-portraits. All part of why art informs. – Brent M Jones
- General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. – Marvin Minsky
- If contemporary literary fiction doesn’t read a bit like science fiction then it’s probably not all that contemporary, is it – Warren Ellis
- Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams. – Freeman Dyson
- Everything’s science fiction until someone makes it science fact – Marie Lu
- Good science fiction has its roots in good science. – Dan Brown
- Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible. – Rod Serling
- I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction – Marcus Chown
- Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it. – Boris Pasternak
- Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all. – Patti Smith
- Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change -“ it can not only move us, it makes us move. – Ossie Davis
- Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t. – Neil Gaiman
- Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely. – Israelmore Ayivor
- History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. – Thomas Jefferson
- The past informs our present and our future. – Todd Stocker
- The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it. – Cara Black
- The past informs the present. – Fennel Hudson
- Society teaches us that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. The bill of rights informs us that we have the right to keep it to ourselves. – Brian Randleas
- Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you. – Bryant McGill
- Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. It’s packaged. We don’t live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it. – Alan Joshua
- Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because they’re aware of it. I choose the second group. – Alan Joshua
- Writing fiction is fun. Writing non-fiction is life-changing. – AD Posey
- Natural art is the most amazing form of art there is. – SA Tawks
- Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience. – Joyce Rachelle
- Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place. – Justin Alcala
- Fiction described reality better than non-fiction. – Tommy Wallach
- I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows. – EM Forster
- I’d always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. – Robin McKinley
- The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable. – Mark Twain