Imitation Quotes

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.

There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.

In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt.

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.

A good imitation is the most perfect originality

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.

Mr. Pibb is a poor imitation of Dr. Pepper. Dude didn't even get his degree.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be defined? In this way, can a reflection be altered?

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.

It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.

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.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

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

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.

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

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