Quotes About Imitation

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

Cartoons ran into trouble when they became too much like real life images. Cartoons had become poor imitations of the real thing.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

When 'Blade Runner' came out, and especially, even actually when 'Alien' came out, it kind of changed how all science fiction movies were designed after that. And that was a really great thing. Now we're watching a lot of movies that are Xeroxes of Xeroxes of Xeroxes of Xeroxes of 'Blade Runner.'

We copied our hairstyle from Prince Charles, not the Beatles.

Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God. —Ephesians 5:1–2

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

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.

I used to dress up like Michael Jackson. I didn't have the glove, but I had a red jacket like in 'Thriller.'

Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.

imitari quam invidere bonis malebant.

No man was ever great by imitation.

It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

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.

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

For a long time, my uniform consisted of a trench coat, wide flared jeans, and little bottines - I copied a pair that my mother had in this theater place. I had, like, 10 pairs of the same shoes.

If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been done to death a million times.