Quotes About Imitation

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

True art is reverent imitation of God.

How grimy did God get when He reached down to clean you up? How grimy are you willing to get in order to be an 'imitator of God'?

Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

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

If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them.

I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

He did a very good impression of a stone column.

I'm not very good at impersonations.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

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.

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

That smile on Stive Jobs face... My impersonation came from being a fan.

History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.

Mr. Pibb is a poor imitation of Dr. Pepper. Dude didn't even get his degree.

Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.

They're working their way down. Next year, Todd Bridges gets the award. When I was a kid I wanted to be Eddie Murphy and now I'm a rip-off of Eddie Murphy.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.