Imitation Quotes

411 Imitation quotes by 304 unique authors

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
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

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