Quotes About Imitation

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

I have definitely emulated my mom's style more than anyone's. But that may be mostly to do with how often I steal her clothing.

I used to copy looks from fashion ads in my mother's 'Cosmopolitan' magazines and steal her eye shadows.

With Michael Jackson, when he moved, it looked like a martial artist to me. He was quicker than other dancers, but he didn't have muscles; he was just quicker and looked more in control of gravity. He looked like a martial arts master, so I tried to steal body movement from him; that's why I imitate Michael Jackson a little bit.

I've always done that since I was in second grade watching the varsity quarterback at my father's high school - trying to steal reps as much as I can.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

Inspiration is one thing. Stealing is another.

Although there's no one I really pattern my game after, I am a firm believer in stealing stuff from other people.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Everybody steals my lines.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

If of a number of shreds of his sentences he can shape an oration, from all the world hee carries it awaie, although in truth it be no more than a fooles coat of many coulours. No inuention or matter haue they of theyr owne, but tacke vp a stile of his stale galimafries. The leaden headed Germanes first began this, and we Englishmen haue surfetted of their absurd imitation. I pittie Nizolius that had nothing to doe, but picke thrids ends out of an olde ouerworne garment.

The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It is as if He has said to the inhabitants of this globe that we call ours, "I have made an earth for man to dwell upon, and I have rendered the starry heavens visible, to teach him science and the arts. He can now provide for his own comfort, and learn from my munificence to all to be kind to each other.

the church has set up a system of religion very contradictory to the character of the person whose name it bears. It has set up a religion of pomp and of revenue in pretended imitation of a person whose life was humility and poverty.

It has set up a religion of pomp and revenue, in pretended imitation of a person whose life was humility and poverty.

If God spares us as a father does his son, let us imitate God. It is natural for children to imitate their parents. Let us imitate God in this one thing: As God spares us, and passes by many failures, so let us be sparing in our censures of others; let us look upon the weaknesses and indiscretions of our brethren with...a more tender, compassionate eye. How much God bears with us!

Always be yourself. Unless you can be me. Then always be me.' And here's another one…

There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

What happens at McGregor's team is that they all talk like Conor McGregor but they don't do what he does. They try to do it. They gain notoriety by talking, and that's a mistake.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate them, and diligently apply themselves to letters for the sake of God's honour and their own salvation and that of other men.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.