Imitation Quotes

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

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.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

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.

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

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

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

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

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

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

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

I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

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

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

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 obviously a great form of flattery.

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Imitation is the sincerest form of pain.

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