Quotes About Imitation

The new birth is the creation of spiritual life, not the imitation of life.

There's nothing wrong with making a fake that looks like a Whiteley, feels like a Whiteley, but in fact isn't a Whiteley."

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

imitation of notable models as an effective spring of learning; was the most ancient and effective motivation to learn—to become like someone admirable—put to death deliberately by institutional pedagogy.

In any conceivable method ever invented by man, an automaton which produces an object by copying a pattern, will go first from the pattern to a description to the object. It first abstracts what the thing is like, and then carries it out. It's therefore simpler not to extract from a real object its definition, but to start from the definition.

E così in eterno ogni perla del mare ricopia la prima perla, e ogni rosa ricopia la prima rosa

A lot of pop music has come out of people failing to copy their model and accidentally creating something new. The closer you get to your ideal, the less original you sound.

You start out imitating your heroes, and the way you fuck up becomes your style.

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We forgive only madmen and children for being frank with us: others, if they have the audacity to imitate them, will regret it sooner or later.

Strong as the propensity to imitation is among civilized men, we must conceive it as an impulse of which their minds have been partially denuded. Like the far-seeing sight, the infallible hearing, the magical scent of the savage, it is a half-lost power. It was strongest in ancient times, and IS strongest in uncivilized regions.

In a thousand cases—in the great majority of cases—the progress of mankind has been arrested in this its earliest shape; it has been closely embalmed in a mummy-like imitation of its primitive existence.

The constant pressure of custom; the effects of imitation, of education, and of habit; the incalculable influence of man on man, produce a working uniformity of conviction more effectually than the gallows and the stake, though without the cruelty, and with far more than the wisdom that have usually been vouchsafed to official persecutors.

The provinces are provinces; they are only ridiculous when they mimic Paris.

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.

I would write down the lyrics to 'C.R.E.A.M.' in Korean - not translating it, but phonetically writing out each word. I didn't know what they were saying, so I would just write everything down as I heard it. I would recite it and imitate it like that. That's how I started to write my own raps.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

Once avant-garde artists receive official recognition, they start a double life. In one, they inspire younger artists to do more. In the other, they inspire a mass of imitators who make the work respectable and exclusionary. The artists and their art become intellectual brand names.

We all know that one can never recreate the magic of an original film.

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.

I was fascinated by Harry Gilmer and wanted to learn to throw the ball just like him.

I started writing songs at eight. Heartbreak songs - don't ask me why. It was the stuff I used to hear, so I imitated it. I used to write songs about guys cheating. Could you imagine!

O imitators, you slavish herd!