Imitation Quotes

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

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.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

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.

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 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.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

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

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

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.

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

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

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.

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.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

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.

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

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

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.

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

Imitation is the sincerest form of pain.

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

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

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

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