Imitation Quotes

Imitation Quote of the day

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Through others we become ourselves.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.

We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women

The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality.

We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Well, I'm going up and up and up - and nobody's going to pull me down!

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.

Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

Imitations only better the original.

All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.

Imitation is the greatest danger of the young [artist].

No man was ever great by imitation.

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

I know it's not ordinary. But who ever loved ordinary?

The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.

Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.