It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I thawt I thaw a putty tat.” “I did, I did thee a putty tat" Finished with his Tweety Bird imitation, he… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“The need to imitate that the consumer experiences is truly an infantile need, one determined by every aspect of his fundamental disposession.… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play. It… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
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