Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We stand for a use of color free from the imitation of things as colored objects. We stand for an aerial vision… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
I have come from France more firmly convinced than ever that Negros should write Negro music. We have our own racial feeling… — James Reese Europe Copy Share Image
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone… — Todd Boyd Copy Share Image
The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking,… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
In Boston terms I was everyone and no one, with no social investment, no social insecurity, sort of Imitation of Christ in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The four laws of learning are: the first is demonstration of what you want. The second is the criticism of the demonstration.… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
