Imitation Quotes

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

— Maria Montessori

every being is unique.god neva creates carbon copies,he alys creates originals.he is truly a creator.he neva repeats.but man goes on living in…

— Anonymous

“You go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something else and then travelling in the wrong car while your real self…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Obviously I don't play the same way as Peter, but I could do a passable imitation of Peter Green; if you gave…

— Gary Moore

The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it,…

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Oswald Mosley

It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.

— Martin Luther

“most expensive originals have cheap imitations.”

— Elfriede Jelinek

I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation.

— Karen Marie Moning

“Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.”

— Tim Fargo

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

— Anonymous

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . .…

— Aristotle

It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators.

— Martin Luther

The worst acting is about imitation.

— Paul Guilfoyle

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

— Thomas Gainsborough

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

— Mitch Hedberg

In literature imitations do not imitate.

— Mark Twain

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

— Anonymous

Imitation is flattery

— Rick Riordan

The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are…

— Gertrude Kasebier

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

— Arshile Gorky

The producer beating a new path for himself through the wilderness is going to do the thing 'differently,' of course. But after…

— Irving Thalberg

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

— Orhan Pamuk

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I don't think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it's annoying.

— Pink