Imitation Quotes

411 Imitation quotes by 304 unique authors

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. — Eric Hoffer
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. — Eric Hoffer
I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else. — Lena Horne
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. — Samuel Johnson
No man was ever great by imitation. — Samuel Johnson
When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now. — Steve Lacy
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. — John Lydon
When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my… — John Mayer
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. — Herman Melville
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself. — Brian Molko
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. — Pablo Picasso
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through… — Edgar Allan Poe
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. — George Santayana
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. — Friedrich Schiller
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. — Gertrude Stein
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. — Jonathan Swift
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. — Voltaire
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the… — Horace Walpole
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. — Mae West
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his… — Milan Kundera

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