Quotes About Imitation

Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.

Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try to do the same thing.

I love Pistol Pete and the pistols. Man, I just love to do that. I put on that Pistol Pete head and shoot those guns, that's fun.

I think Justin Bieber and Zayn have both been listening to me a lot, and they basically wanna be me.

Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol.

Forgers can start with the same photographic images Warhol did, and sometimes knock off silkscreens only an expert can distinguish from the originals.

A lot of times when people get copied, they get copied and washed out. But you can't even duplicate how we do it because it's just so genuine. It's just us.

Children enter the world with a great deal of love and trust. They are not yet able to perceive good and bad, but they take everything as good and appropriate to absorb and unconsciously imitate.

Imitation and repetition are the keys to discipline with the young child, not reasoning or punishment.

Our actions speak louder than our words with the young child, who cannot help but imitate. Through us, children learn whether or not their initial love and trust in the world were well founded.

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities?

All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.

It's easy to look smart when you're parroting smart people.)

Briefly, I tried to imitate her. But, I had only the form, not the substance.

When a celebrity is spotted carrying a particular bag, everybody wants to own the same thing.

It's challenging to drive in a way that's human-like.

Shatrughan Sinha's career lasted because people could imitate his dialogues. You cannot be a mass superstar if people don't imitate your dialogues.

It irritates me to see people aping superstars.

You become megastars when superstars start reprising your roles.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

Because America leads the world by example, it's no surprise that some might seek to imitate our domestic rules and regulations on a global scale.

You'd be surprised. Drummers ape each other. The way every rock n' roll record sounds like something else but not all together. Everything other drummers play, if you're playing drums, they all hear.

We always seem to be a bit surprised that our children are reflecting stuff that we are showing them. I don't know about you, but every movie that I saw when I was a kid, I emulated. I was Haley Mills for an entire summer and had an English accent.