Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

— Mary Parker Follett

“Unknowing imitation is almost a recipe for bad design. If you don’t know where your ideas are coming from, you’re probably imitating an imitator.”

— Paul Graham

“Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Until it isn't.”

— Em Bailey

“Imitation is the highest from of flattery. Until it isn't.”

— Em Bailey

“They say that imitation is the highest form of flattery... but I say that it is the WORST form of creativity.”

— Antwian Marcel Crawford

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

Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.

— Vladimir Horowitz

“It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression, but their colour and shape, and the eyelashes, so remarkably fine, might be copied.”

— Jane Austen

“most expensive originals have cheap imitations.”

— Elfriede Jelinek

Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

— Oscar Wilde

“Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.”

— Steve Aylett