Best 172 quotes in «imitation quotes» category

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

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.

Most imitators attempt the inimitable.

My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

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.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.

Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious.

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

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.

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.

Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else. If we are not ... we must struggle and be. I would not be exactly like Jesus. It is unnecessary that I should be born a Jew.

... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, a more ductile material than meaning... It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself.

The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

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.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.

The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.

The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly, and the peace of God scarcely at all.

The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

There’s a difference between making an imitation and selling it.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

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.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

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 actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.

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!

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.

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.

When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.