Commonplace Quote by Gertrude Stein

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his…

— Aristotle

Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double…

— Madame de Stael

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

— Piet Oudolf

Imitation is just the fear of bringing out ur creative self.

— Niidoodo

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater;…

— John Dryden

Nature constantly imitates art.

— Oscar Wilde

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

— Seneca the Younger

Imitation is at least 50 percent of the creative process

— Jamie Buckingham

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest…

— Albrecht Durer

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

— Carl Sagan

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

— John Dryden