Imitation Quotes

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

I would agree with you that there's 90% imitation and 10% innovation. That's true of any genre.

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.

The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.

The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.

The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

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

Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.

We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

In imitation of our Master, we Christians are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our own and to take practical steps to alleviate it.

When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.

Don't imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that's a way of avoiding knowing yourself.

The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with line as a thing. It becomes a servant of his pleasure.

Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.

No one ever became great by imitation.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.

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.

...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

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

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work.