“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we… — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up. — Gene Ween Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, here as elsewhere on this touching planet, imitation is the watchword and prestige the highest ambition.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
'Imitation Girl' is a feature written and directed by Natasha Kermani. She's one of the founders of Illium Pictures who co-produced 'Pod.' — Lauren Ashley Carter Copy Share Image
It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules.… — Jean-Pierre Serre Copy Share Image
Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I have pulled threads from magic tapestries already woven and used them to weave my own cloth.” — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Never imitate. The mind is an imitator, because imitation is very easy. To be someone is very difficult. To become someone is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Imitation is very easy, and the whole culture and society depends on imitation. Everybody is telling you how to behave, and whatsoever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes… — Hollis Frampton Copy Share Image
His face flushed, and I felt like cheering. "Yes," he said stiffly. "Besides de vings." "Hmm. Besides de vings." Nudge tapped one… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Learn how to follow the will of God, the reason why sometimes we fail as human being is because we tend to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature. — John Constable Copy Share Image
Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
