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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and… — Samuel George Morton
An imitation of a Frenchman would not make me a Frenchman. I am a German and I would have to be "reborn" to be anything… — F. Huegel
Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at… — Michel de Montaigne
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. — Horace
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name… — Horace
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self… — Eric Hoffer
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. — Jean de La Fontaine
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a… — Pablo Picasso
Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the… — Leonardo da Vinci
No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of… — Leonardo da Vinci
We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with… — Lord Chesterfield
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in… — Edmund Burke
The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling. — Henri Matisse
When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in… — Vincent Van Gogh
A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no… — Tom Robbins
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get… — Cennino Cennini
Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature. — Robert Henri
It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or… — Ben Shahn
By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the… — Joshua Reynolds
The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes… — Joshua Reynolds
It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him. — Mary Cassatt
In spite of the extraordinary outpouring of totally and partially new products and new ways of doing things that we are witnessing today, by far… — Theodore Levitt
One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun. — Raoul Dufy

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