Imitation Quotes

411 Imitation quotes by 304 unique authors

Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be used for inspiration… — Alexey Brodovitch
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this… — Lydia M. Child
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which… — Charles Darwin
Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal… — John Searle
In literature imitations do not imitate. — Mark Twain
These examples, though as unfit for the imitation, as they are repugnant to the genius of America, are notwithstanding . . . very instructive proofs… — James Madison
The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by… — Umberto Eco
You may imitate, but never counterfeit. — Honore de Balzac
Whatever is well said by another, is mine. — Seneca the Younger
The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth. — Baltasar Gracian
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational. — Warren Buffett
In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience. I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the bottom of their souls… — Richard Tuttle
The worst acting is about imitation. — Paul Guilfoyle
I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different. — AnnaLynne McCord
Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression… — Mike Watt
There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through… — J M Coetzee
My works are an imitation of my own past and present. — Barbara Hepworth
Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action — Aristotle
Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it… — Gloria Steinem
I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection ... that… — George Washington
It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more… — Allan Bloom
Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. — George Henry Lewes

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