Best 172 quotes in «imitation quotes» category

All art is but imitation of nature.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

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.

an imitator is always a poor example.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.

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.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.

Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.

Discipling involves instruction and imitation.

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.

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.

Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.

If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.

I don't think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it's annoying.

Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.

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.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

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

Imitations only better the original.

Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.

Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.

Imitation can be commercial suicide.

Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.

Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.

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

Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

In imitation is a bit suicide.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

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.

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.

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.

It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.