Has anyone read James Patterson's The Quickie?? Is it just me or does it strike you odd how much a certain situation in that book involving a robbery in a hotel room mimics the current OJ fiasco? Pax - C
2007-09-19 05:13:10 · 9 answers · asked by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I believe that Art imitates life. Not actually imitation but inspiration.As for Patterson's book and OJ, maybe it could have been as you probably suppose. OJ read the book and tried to do likewise....
But without life Art has no meaning. All great works of At cme from ordinary life, even Monalisa.
TW K
2007-09-20 18:09:13 · answer #1 · answered by TW K 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I haven't read the book and I'm trying not to keep up with the OJ news, but your question made me think of a quote on the subject of life imitating art or art imitating life--
"In Italy for thirty years under Borgias they had warfare, terro, murder, bloodshed--but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
--Orson Welles.
2007-09-20 23:48:11 · answer #2 · answered by kerouac003 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I haven't read it, but I think that art imitates life and life imitates life. Sometimes things it's like art imitating life imitating art. It's weird and a little confusing, I know. When you think of it, where else do writers get their ideas? From life. Then, sometimes, people borrow ideas from books that have portrayed something that happened in real life. It's a sort of cycle.
2007-09-19 13:02:21 · answer #3 · answered by Raingirl 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's an interesting point. I still think that art imitates life though. It is amazing how certain situations in books are so similar to life.
2007-09-19 22:40:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Art imitates life, or better said, art is inspired by life!
As for the OJ fiasco, I'm not yet familiar with it.
2007-09-19 15:59:59 · answer #5 · answered by aceix 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think art imitates life.
2007-09-19 18:57:22 · answer #6 · answered by Kristin 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Both
2007-09-19 12:21:06 · answer #7 · answered by Razorwind 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Both. Neither can exist without the other.
2007-09-19 15:44:14 · answer #8 · answered by pibarrington 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
sorry, i m not philosopher...y u people dont enjoy life.
2007-09-21 06:58:46 · answer #9 · answered by ashish rajput 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋