Imitation Quotes

There’s a difference between making an imitation and selling it.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

I hate imitation jewelry, dark lipstick and most of all a shrill voice. This has spoiled many a picture of feminine loveliness.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

San Francisco, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in the country.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

an imitator is always a poor example.

Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.

I thawt I thaw a putty tat.” “I did, I did thee a putty tat" Finished with his Tweety Bird imitation, he grinned unpleasantly at me. “Now, then, luv, let’s get down to business

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

Imitation is flattery

The brain alone is intricate beyond mapping, powerful beyond imitation, rich in diversity, self-protecting, and self-renewing. The secret is that it is grown, not built.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.

When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

You don't want it to be a replica or an imitation. You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.

Discipling involves instruction and imitation.

It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.

The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.

Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery.

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.

I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ.