Quotes about imitation




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"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."

Allen, Fred A. on imitation    Share


"You may imitate, but never counterfeit."

Balzac, Honore De on imitation    Share

"Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate."

Bastos, Augusto Roa on imitation    Share

"Imitation belittles."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on imitation
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"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original."

Cocteau, Jean on imitation    Share

"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."

Colby, Frank Moore on imitation    Share

"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."

Dali, Salvador on imitation
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"Imitation is suicide."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on imitation    Share

"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."

Fenton, James on imitation    Share

"To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth."

Gracian, Baltasar on imitation    Share

"One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it."

Guicciardini, Francesco on imitation    Share

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."

Hoffer, Eric on imitation    Share

"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble."

Johnson, Samuel on imitation    Share

"No man was ever great by imitation."

Johnson, Samuel on imitation    Share

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Jung, Carl on imitation
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"The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on imitation    Share

"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on imitation    Share

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on imitation    Share

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

Phillips, Wendell on imitation    Share

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"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic."

Picasso, Pablo on imitation
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"Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness."

Reade, W. Winwood on imitation    Share

"Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes."

Sade, Marquis De on imitation    Share

"Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on imitation    Share

"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on imitation    Share

"It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers."

Schwartz, David J. on imitation    Share

"Whatever is well said by another, is mine."

Seneca on imitation    Share

"Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy."

Steele, Sir Richard on imitation    Share

"Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting."

Stein, Gertrude on imitation    Share

"He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks will make no discoveries."

Unknown, Source on imitation
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