Imitation Quotes

411 Imitation quotes by 304 unique authors

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.Â I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the bottom of their… — 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
I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as… — Alexander Pope
News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to the leading news… — Unknown Author
Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek… — Tom Standage
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied… — Albert Camus
Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline. — Sun Ra

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