Imitating Quotes

104 quotes by 101 authors

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. — Theodor Adorno
Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it… — Bjork
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating… — Constantin Brancusi
Now, we're just imitating and imitating and imitating what we've done before. The real revolution on how we make clothes and how we wear clothes… — Norma Kamali
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and… — P.J. O'Rourke
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on;… — Florence Nightingale
What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you. — Jimmy Connors
My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at… — Nicholas Delbanco
I find on songwriting, I really have to work at making sure I'm not imitating myself. You know? Which happens to all of us. When… — Andy Wilkinson
Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves. — Aida Overton Walker
At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I… — Lana Parrilla
When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started… — Ray Charles
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters. — Keith Richards
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at all… — Frank Stella
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none. — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler, — Benito Mussolini
God is the original, master forgiver. Each time we grope our reluctant way through the minor miracle of forgiving, we are imitating his style. I… — Lewis B. Smedes
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society… — Mircea Eliade
My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already… — Toots Thielemans

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