In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation. — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Against the odds, John Carter is itself pretty amazing-an epic pulp saga that slowly rises to the level of its best imitations… — Ty Burr Copy Share Image
Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible. — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
“The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, "i did it",… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
You will respect my authori-tah!' Oberon said, in a passable imitation of Eric Cartman. I reminded him that I needed to concentrate.… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus. — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners. — Alice Fulton Copy Share Image
Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“In Paris, Julien’s position with regard to Madame de Renal would very soon have been simplified; but in Paris love is the… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
