Quotes About Imitation

Kids don't do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?

Picasso has been many times quoted as saying good artists copy, great artists steal.

Steve Jobs in 1996. I like to think that we may begin with imitation, graduate to emulation, and then aspire to creation.

When Halliburton expressed curiosity about this "inconceivable power," Bob took him into his room, showed him his "immense file of pictures," and gave him a lecture on visualization. Far from being impressed, Halliburton became convinced that "Irwin had no pre-imagination, none whatsoever. That was his whole problem. He could imitate things. He couldn't create things.

The concept of scientism was introduced by 20th-century economist Friedrich Hayek.4 He observed that, too often, the methods and language of science are imitated by institutions and systems not engaged in science, such that the resulting efforts are generally not scientific at all.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

As is often the case with children, the rule of 'monkey see, monkey do' plays out in the workplace. It's hard to be good role model, and it's one of the greatest challenges of leadership.

Machinery makes men like itself.

Geep,' whuppled the parrot.

It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression, but their colour and shape, and the eyelashes, so remarkably fine, might be copied.

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

I don't know, I don't know how to do anything. I'm just like, doing impressions of what I've seen other people do, and hoping no one knows that I'm actually just a little monster in a human suit making my arms go up and down.

It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

Certainly early on, I kind of modeled myself after Steve Martin and Bill Murray. I would imitate them sometimes.

I think there are always people who, when they get the bug to play an instrument, they want to get as good as they can with it rather than just be simply adequate at it. You run into them every once in a while - some kid who wants to be the next Stevie Ray Vaughan, for whatever reason, and plays exactly like him.

I really liked Stevie Ray Vaughn, so hey - I tried to look like him.