Quotes About Imitation

Commercial Bengali movies are all crass imitation of Telugu and Tamil movies. There are only a handful of directors like Rituparno Ghosh, Aparna Sen and Gautam Ghose who make quality films.

Hablando en serio: los que obedecen suelen ser una copia exacta de los que mandan.

Toys here reveal the list of all the things the adult does not find unusual: war, bureaucracy, ugliness, Martians, etc. It is not so much, in fact, the imitation which is the sign of an abdication, as its literalness: French toys are like a Jivaro head, in which one recognises, shrunken to the size of an apple, the wrinkles and hair of an adult.

French toys are usually based on imitation, they are meant to produce children who are users, not creators.

The end of learning, he said, is to "repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him" by acquiring "true virtue" (Hughes 631). This reinforces and expands Sidney's point that the end of learning is virtuous action.

disciples are not copiers of Christ but continuing incarnations of Jesus' life and love.

The essential element of Christian truth is that the risen Christ is not something you mimic but someone you manifest.

He who can copy can do.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard: but if he will apply himself to learn from the objects of nature he will produce good results. This we see was the case with the painters who came after the time of the Romans, for they continually imitated each other, and from age to age their art steadily declined.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

He had searched to find a scientific basis for art, and discovered it in the imitation of nature, based on rational experience.

A bird is like an instrument working according to mathematical law, and it is in the capacity of man to reproduce such an instrument

We are to a large extent an imitative society.

You are made in the image of what you desire.

We are not called to be christians, we are called to be like Christ.

The film looks suspiciously like the game itself!

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

Christlike in my behavior Like any good believer I imitate the Savior And cultivate a beaver

C'era una moquette che imitava delle piastrelle di cotto toscano ma dato che era alta quattro centimetri non le riusciva granché bene.

Instruction is good for a child; but example is worth more.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

The point is not to read widely so that your voice will be sort of a mutt descended from them all. The point is to read widely enough to know what delights you, what you would like to imitate, and what you want to stay away from.

Learn what good work is, imitate it studiously, and do that over time.