Imitation famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Imitation is the greatest danger of the young [artist].
-- Alexey Brodovitch -
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
-- Alfred de Vigny -
At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.
-- Alice Fulton -
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 who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.
-- Aristide Maillol -
If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.
-- Arshile Gorky -
My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
-- Barbara Hepworth -
Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.
-- Bruce Lee -
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 some nourishment from them.
-- Cennino Cennini -
When I'm alone in my apartment, I open my Garage Band and just, you know, record these weird imitations of celebrities - Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Michael Jackson; everybody!
-- Charice Pempengco -
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
-- Charles Caleb Colton -
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
-- Charles Caleb Colton -
The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.
-- Charles Fort -
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
-- Charles Olson -
No single character is ever so great that a nation can afford to form itself upon it. Imitation belittles. This appears in the instance of the Chinese. The Chinese are so many Confucii; in miniature. And so with the Jews. Moses, the lawgiver, is poorly represented by Moses, the old clothesman ; or even by Dives, the hanker.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature
-- Coco Chanel -
If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.
-- Denis Waitley -
We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.
-- Denis Waitley -
In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation...
-- Desson Thomson -
Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
-- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau -
An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
A poor original is better than a good imitation.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.
-- Elsie de Wolfe -
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
-- Erno Rubik -
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Imitation is always insult--not flattery.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright -
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
-- Frank Stella -
It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.
-- Frederick The Great -
In ‘Imitation of Life’, I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt,
-- Fredi Washington -
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.
-- Gene Ween -
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.
-- George Orwell -
Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our blessed religion we can never hope to be a happy nation.
-- George Washington -
Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.
-- Gerald Brenan -
My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.
-- Gerhard Richter -
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
-- Gertrude Stein -
The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
-- Israel Zangwill -
Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.
-- James Fenton -
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
I thawt I thaw a putty tat.†“I did, I did thee a putty tat" Finished with his Tweety Bird imitation, he grinned unpleasantly at me. “Now, then, luv, let’s get down to business
-- Jeaniene Frost -
My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?
-- John Constable -
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 -
Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.
-- John French Sloan -
There’s a difference between making an imitation and selling it.
-- Jonathan Hoefler -
He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.
-- Joshua Reynolds -
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 value of their tints, and by which nature has been so happily imitated.
-- Joshua Reynolds -
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
-- Judith Butler -
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.
-- Judith Butler -
We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]
-- Juvenal -
We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.
-- Luise Rainer -
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Discipling involves instruction and imitation.
-- Mark Dever -
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 -
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
-- Mason Cooley -
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.
-- Matt Ridley -
...all cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small...
-- Muhammad Asad -
We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women
-- Naomi Wolf -
The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.
-- Norm MacDonald -
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
-- Pablo Picasso -
Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.
-- Peyton Manning -
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.
-- Piero Scaruffi -
Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.
-- Polly Bergen -
When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.
-- Publilius Syrus -
One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.
-- Raoul Dufy -
Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious.
-- Robert Aris Willmott -
I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.
-- Robert Charles Wilson -
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
-- Samuel Johnson -
I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.
-- Sergei Prokofiev -
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.
-- Sergei Prokofiev -
I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.
-- Sir Fulke Greville -
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
-- Theodor Adorno -
It is always better to be an original than an imitation.
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation
-- Thomas Gainsborough -
Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.
-- Tom Bissell -
...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.
-- Tracy Kidder -
When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
-- Walter Darby Bannard -
When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
-- Walter Darby Bannard -
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
-- Wendell Phillips
