Imitation Quotes

411 Imitation quotes by 304 unique authors

Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the Eastâ€™s exuberant vision of the West, the Westâ€™s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up… — M. John Harrison
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. — Charles Caleb Colton
Imitation is the highest form of flattery. — Charles Caleb Colton
Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original. — Margaret Fuller
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is… — Philip Sidney
Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind. — Maria Montessori
In â€˜Imitation of Lifeâ€™, I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt, — Fredi Washington
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge. — Oliver Lodge
Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof. — Ahmet Ertegun
Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that… — Hollis Frampton
Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the… — Albert Pinkham Ryder
Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate… — George Polya
Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT;… — Josef Albers
We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must… — Newton N. Minow
"Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations of the mighty.… — Clive James
Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human behavior and treat… — Paul Starr
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure… — Hans Hofmann
I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up. — Gene Ween
It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules. However, in our… — Jean-Pierre Serre

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