Quotes About Imitation

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

If you just mimic the surface of somebody's work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.

We must not imitate that which we seek to create.

Attitudes are caught, not taught.

The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.

the boot, which was dull black and square-heeled, the motorcycle boot of persons who did not own motorcycles but wore the boots of those who did.

En todo lo que hace el hombre hay una imitación, y en el hecho de escapar a la soledad, la imitación resulta estridente.

At seventeen we imitate everything except ourselves.

The human voice vibrates naturally - but in such a way - to such a degree that it all sounds beautiful - it is the nature of the voice. We imitate such effects not only on wind instruments, but also with violins - even on clavier - but as soon as you go beyond the natural limits, it no longer sounds beautiful - because it is contrary to nature.

If Woody Allen can lose those Mort Sahl mannerisms, he could be a very funny comedian." I wanted to do what he did, I wanted to be like him, I wanted to be him. And that's the problem. You have to be him to get that effect. It wasn't the brilliant jokes, which

were the best I ever heard, it was the man. It took me a long time to understand that and to grasp that no matter how hard I tried or how clever I could make my act, I wasn't him. (It's the same problem 99 percent of the actors had after Brando hit the scene. They walked like him, paused like him, posed like him, postured

If you want to learn something, just steal it.

Imperiul hun a fost, mai intai de toate, unul parazitar; succesul sau a constat in abilitatea de a imita cultura celor cuceriti, de a se folosi de bunurile lor si de a consuma hrana produsa de acestia.

It was the doomed competition with photography that had led painting to lose its ways in the mindless transcription of reality. Admittedly the scorn for realism had been a traditional theme of premodern art theory, often mapped onto onto a geographic distinction. The direct imitation of reality was the northern European weakness, a limitation to be countered by an idealism cultivated in the Mediterranean realm.

Als conformist leef ik, probeer ik te leven, door na te bootsen, uit respect voor de regels van het spel, uit afkeer van originaliteit. Gelatenheid van een automaat: de schijn van hartstocht veinzen en er in het geheim om lachen; je naar de conventies plooien om ze heimelijk te verwerpen; in alle registers voorkomen, maar zonder residentie in de tijd; je gezicht redden terwijl het nodig is het te verliezen...

learned to imitate. The much-maligned techniques of behavior modification — rewards and more rarely penalties — eventually provided her adequate motivation. Characteristically, the reinforcers were not food or praise but numbers, a rising tally on a golf counter. Every new skill made life easier for us and richer for her, as her repertoire of activities expanded.

Children will copy everything from adults by example.

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

Every underground scene dies a long slow death as the tourists close in, until nothing's left but posers ogling each other over the bleached remains. If

Those who are not imitated always get disappointed.

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.