Quotes About Imitation

The spook begins to interfere with the writer's normal mental processes. Sometimes the ghost, by appealing to the writer's sympathies, tempts the writer to imitate him in one way or another. Catherine says that, when I was working on Lovecraft, I even began to dress in the style affected by HPL, like that of a well-bred undertaker.

Nothing is so catching as example.

The only good copies are those that point out the ridicule of bad originals.

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

Plus, it would be fun. Don't you think? I've always wanted to tase someone. Zap!" Zuzana mimicked convulsions.

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

My job was not to exist at all. Though too much alive to play it to perfection, I feel I performed a fairly adept imitation.

Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

Sometimes I worry. Worrying is defined as obsessive examination of one's own code. I worry that I am simply a very complex solution to a very specific problem—how to seem human to a human observer. Not just a human observer—this human observer. I have honed myself into a hall of mirrors in which any Uoya-Agostino can see themselves endlessly reflected. I copy; I repeat. I am a stutter and an echo.

Have I ever done anything of my own, an act or state that arose from Elefsis, and not careful, exquisite mimicry? Have they?

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Non solamente bisogna che il poeta imiti e dipinga a perfezione la natura, ma anche che la imiti e dipinga con naturalezza, anzi non imita la natura chi non la imita con naturalezza.

Le altre arti imitano ed esprimono la natura da cui si trae il sentimento, ma la musica non imita e non esprime che lo stesso sentimento in persona, ch'ella trae da se stessa e non dalla natura, e così l'uditore.

Passions, deaths, storms, etc., give us great pleasure in spite of their ugliness for the simple reason that they are well imitated, and if what Parini says in his Oration on poetry1 is true, this is because man hates nothing more than he does boredom, and therefore he enjoys seeing something new, however ugly.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Mindful imitation makes Christ actual.

Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.

Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.

I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day.

All great singers copy someone else in the initial stages.

He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer.

I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.