Quotes About Imitation

Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.

Why, therefore, except through foolishness and miserable error, shouldst thou humble thyself to worship a being to whom thou desirest to be unlike in thy life? And why shouldst thou pay religious homage to him whom thou art unwilling to imitate, when it is the highest duty of religion to imitate Him whom thou worshippest?

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

Fake sUCKs!

We are imitating Nature, who is variable; and he who imitates her cannot be blamed.

The band readily acknowledged that they borrowed ideas rather than making up their own. "That's all you can do today," Turner explained. "I think you're kinda fooling yourself as a rock band if you think you're doing something really original.

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

I'm just a child who's learned to impersonate an adult.

If Sinatra had packed in his style because there were a load of counterfeit Sinatras about, he would have stopped singing in 1956 or whatever.

The most sincere form of flattery is money.

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

That was how I had developed my singing style in the first place - imitating other singers like George Michael and Richard Marx.

I'm the oldest of four children, and when I was young, I used to get the blackboard out and make my brothers and sisters sit in front of me while I taught class. They all thought I wanted to be a teacher, but I didn't. I was impersonating my teachers.

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.

Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such.

I do like moving my legs a lot, like maybe moon walk-y things. I don't have like one move, because I try as much as I can. But I just love imitating impossible things that dancers do.