Imitation Quotes

411 Imitation quotes by 304 unique authors

I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day… — Jacques Lipchitz
When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those… — Aristide Maillol
My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. — Gerhard Richter
A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in… — Walter J. Phillips
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art… — Stephen Neill
At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners. — Alice Fulton
In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has… — Todd Boyd
When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend. — Walter Darby Bannard
When inspiration dies, imitation thrives. — Walter Darby Bannard
If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso. — Arshile Gorky
The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is… — Charles Fort
It is always better to be an original than an imitation. — Theodore Roosevelt
Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original. — Ann Landers
Each person is born with a unique individuality, and each person has a destiny of his or her own. Imitation is crime, it is criminal.… — Rajneesh
The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful… — Joseph Campbell
Imitation is the greatest danger of the young [artist]. — Alexey Brodovitch
By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the… — Muhammad Asad
A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as… — C.S. Lewis
Imitation is the sincerest flattery. — Mahatma Gandhi
I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead… — Gilbert Gottfried
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is… — Confucius
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. — Mason Cooley
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. — Salvador Dali
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot… — James Fenton

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