Quotes About Imitation

There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never says that he asks for admirers, adoring admirers, adherents; and when he uses the expression 'follower' he always explains it in such a way that one perceives that 'imitators' is meant by it, that is not adherents of a teaching but imitators of a life....

Imitation, which corresponds to Christ as prototype, must be advanced, be affirmed, be called to our attention

Maybe the little sahib is copying us—blinking when we blink." And Amina: "We'll blink in turn and watch.

Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Chacun connaît ce retour de l'île d'Elbe, retour étrange, miraculeux, qui, sans exemple dans le passé, restera probablement sans imitation dans l'avenir.

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

Citation : Action de répéter de façon erronée les mots d'un autre.

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.

There is something thrilling in the mimesis of life's surprising unfolding.

I feel like art imitates life and life imitates art.

Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.

Só às crianças e aos loucos perdoamos que sejam francos connosco: os outros, caso tenham a audácia de os imitar, arrepender-se-ão mais cedo ou mais tarde de o terem feito.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.