Top 100 Quotes About Imitation
#1. Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.
Polly Bergen
#2. In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.
Theodor Adorno
#3. If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.
George Orwell
#4. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the rise of a trout to the tied fly, is the purest form of flattering nature with art.
R.E. Long
#5. Simulation is a copy which has no prototype, the imitation of something that does not exist, and has never existed except than in the simulator's mind.
Anonymous
#6. The man who has no self-respect, on the contrary, will imitate anybody and anything; sounds of nature and cries of animals alike; his whole performance will be imitation of gesture and voice.
Plato
#7. Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious imitation, I yet never for an instant lose the emotion that has taken hold of me.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#8. To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
Wendell Phillips
#9. 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.
Denis Waitley
#10. The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
Orhan Pamuk
#11. In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation ...
Desson Thomson
#13. For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself.
Lukas Foss
#14. My sister and I were not allowed expensive clothes. We so badly wanted these Fila sneakers as kids, but my mother took us down to the flea market and got imitation ones. Look at the early Destiny's Child videos. You'll see.
Solange Knowles
#15. 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
#16. Griffin rolled his eyes. "You should have heard him complaining in wardrobe." His voice went up an octave in a poor imitation of Kellan's. "Oh, poor me, I have to make
S.C. Stephens
#17. For a long time I'd been fed on the wheat of The Imitation. It was the only book which did me any good, as I hadn't discovered the treasures of the Gospels. I knew every chapter by heart. I was never without this little book.
John Beevers
#18. Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.
Albert Pinkham Ryder
#19. We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#20. These examples, though as unfit for the imitation, as they are repugnant to the genius of America, are notwithstanding ... very instructive proofs of the necessity of some institution that will blend stability with liberty.
James Madison
#21. In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.
June Jordan
#22. Creativity is nothing but an intelligent imitation.
Sandeep Kakkar
#23. The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism
Walter Gropius
#24. When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.
Vincent Van Gogh
#25. To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare's mirror is all that is needed for it. But by imitation we enlarge nature itself, we become nature or we discover in ourselves nature's active part.
William Carlos Williams
#26. The first - imitation - merely does enough to keep your competitors in check. It does not create space in the marketplace; all it does is temporarily ensure that the pack of nondifferentiated competitors keeping their doors open will include you.
Scott McKain
#27. In spite of the extraordinary outpouring of totally and partially new products and new ways of doing things that we are witnessing today, by far the greatest flow of newness is not innovation at all. Rather, it is imitation.
Theodore Levitt
#29. The whole idea of jazz came about was the interpretation of the human dialogue, trading fours. When someone's soloing and someone picks up the solo and plays it back at 'em, it was the imitation of the human dialogue. It was how people spoke, through music.
Wendell Pierce
#30. Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.
Margaret Fuller
#31. Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear ... Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
J.C. Ryle
#32. Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.
Mary Parker Follett
#33. It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators.
Martin Luther
#34. The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
Oliver Joseph Lodge
#36. An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.
Henry Ford
#38. Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#39. The best way of realising our high ideals is to show that we have an alternative in government that is credible, that is radical, and is electable - is neither a pale imitation of what the Tories offer nor is it the route to being a party of permanent protest rather than a party of government.
Gordon Brown
#40. A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
Quintilian
#41. The two Samanas recognized him simply by the perfection of his peace, by the stillness of his being in which there was no seeking, no desire, no imitation, no attempts at being seen
only light and peace.
Hermann Hesse
#42. Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.
Heinrich Heine
#43. Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#44. Scarlett, when you are forty-five, perhaps you will know what I'm talking about and then perhaps you, too, will be tired of imitation gentry and shoddy manners and cheap emotions. But I doubt it. I think you'll always be more attracted by glister than by gold.
Margaret Mitchell
#45. Or might the soul clone itself,
create a perfect imitation
of something yet to be
defined? In this way,
can a reflection be altered?
Ellen Hopkins
#46. I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.
Gene Ween
#47. Congratulations on the new spawn, by the way."
"Well," Gem said, "that was better than what Wraith said." She lowered her voice and did an imitation of Wraith. "Way cool about the fuck-trophy.
Larissa Ione
#48. Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation
William Shakespeare
#49. 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
#50. And it's not the real Elvis you need to resemble, it's the imitation Elvises. Not hard to look like one of them.
Margaret Atwood
#51. Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's Nose.
Vladimir Nabokov
#52. When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.
Steve Lacy
#53. Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
George Bernard Shaw
#54. There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#56. JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.
Ambrose Bierce
#58. Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation ... From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life all movement and rhythm time and light, color and mood in short, all reality in Form and Thought.
Hans Hofmann
#60. All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.
Henry David Thoreau
#61. Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
Ahmet Ertegun
#62. When you are inhabiting a self that is fixed and set in place, you may think that you have attained something positive. As people say, "Now I know who I am." What they really know is an imitation of a real self, a collection of habits, labels, and preferences that is entirely historical.
Deepak Chopra
#63. Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.
Warren Buffett
#64. A good imitation is the most perfect originality
Voltaire
#65. For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.
Aristotle.
#66. Him to sea. The board, in imitation of so wise and salutary
Charles Dickens
#67. ... This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience will answer.
Martin Amis
#68. Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
John Berger
#69. Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
Alexander Pope
#70. I would agree with you that there's 90% imitation and 10% innovation. That's true of any genre.
DJ Shadow
#71. For me, it's always very beautiful that you can do something today in the 21st century which is not an imitation but which has a connection to art which is 4,000 years old.
Wolfgang Laib
#72. The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
Richard Lovelace
#73. Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.
Madame De Stael
#74. Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.
George Polya
#75. He found himself weeping.
Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece. True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation.
It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety.
Brandon Sanderson
#76. Every night is an imitation of death. Without that I would have killed myself long ago.' She
Iris Murdoch
#77. I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ.
John Climacus
#78. I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.
James Gunn
#79. He seemed so cold. Like a shadow caused by heat and light falling on someone honorable and true, casting this black imitation behind.
Brandon Sanderson
#80. A false religion is like the imitation of high fashion. The very presence of counterfeits proves the existence of the real. There would be no imitations without a genuine product. God's original design has always had imitators and counterfeits!
Billy Graham
#81. My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I possess, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The biggest form of flattery is imitation, so I'm flattered.
Lil' Mama
#83. But it is an orchestra," I say. "It's an imitation orchestra - an orchestrion, an orchestrina - whatever you call it, it does a terrible job! All you've done is turn a sublime group achievement, a human act, into an inferior egotistical solo -
Kim Stanley Robinson
#84. Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe
#85. All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small ...
Muhammad Asad
#86. Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but worship is the greatest form of adoration.
Jayce O'Neal
#87. Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen
#88. This larger goal wouldn't be the imitation of education in Universities today, glossed over and concealed by grades and degrees that give the appearance of something happening when, in fact, almost nothing is going on. It would be the real thing.
Robert M. Pirsig
#90. Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.
Samuel Smiles
#92. Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
John Lydon
#93. During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes have befallen us, and then strive to train our heart to bear and forgive these things patiently, in imitation of our Saviour. This is the way to acquire a strong spirit.
Philip Neri
#94. He couldn't read her these days; it was as though she'd been taken away from him, and in her place some alien had dropped a figure that looked like Alice, but was a cheap imitation of her with half the emotions missing or malfunctioning.
Andrew Barrett
#95. What a strange mind, to cover the real thing with an imitation of something real.
Frances Mayes
#96. The only thing that's worse than people who say "I am what I am" is people who say "I yam what I yam" while doing a Popeye imitation.
Ariel Leve
#97. There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.
Charles Taylor
#98. He went to the coffee pot and picked it up, attempting to pour a cup before he realized it was empty and frowned. "Why is the rum always gone?" he muttered in his best Captain Jack Sparrow imitation as he riffled through cabinets.
Elizabeth Sharp
#99. Every being is unique.god neva creates carbon copies,he alys creates originals.he is truly a creator.he neva repeats.but man goes on living in imitation.we are tryin to be somedody else which is impossible.
Osho
#100. In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim ... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
