Quotes About Imitation

I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

We by art unteach what Nature taught.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.