Quotes About Imitation

Don't forget—Charlie Chaplin too, my friend." "I'd do an imitation, but I don't know what he sounds like." "Hey, not bad, boss. You can open for me in the Catskills.

In Australia, kids play in American accents.

As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.

I don't like it when people dress up like Zim, because they look like Hulks.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

Many people hide inside of their "not-knowing" and, afraid of taking the risk, settle for mediocrity in their life. They imitate the same safe, easy life that other people walk. They mistake that for happiness and, inside of it, look for security. However, the moment that the defensive shields we've built up come down, all truths reveal themselves and speak to us. When we hear our inner voice and follow it, we can walk our own path.

We have to work hard with the bad language that we have inherited to arrive at that language which has never yet ruled, but which rules our intuition, and which we imitate.

Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate. – Anonymous

The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition.

As Pablo Picasso (no slouch at theft himself) put it, "Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.

We're prewired to imitate," Anders Ericsson says. "When you put yourself in the same situation as an outstanding person and attack a task that they took on, it has a big effect on your skill.

We try to make our celebrities stand in for the heroes we no longer have, or for those who have been pushed out of our view... Yet the celebrity is usually nothing greater than a more-publicized version of us. In imitating him, in trying to dress like him, talk like him, look like him, think like him, we are simply imitating ourselves.

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

Behavior is a virus. We spread our behavior to those around us, whether passively or on purpose.

With high-speed cameras, we can do the opposite of time lapse. We can shoot images that are thousands of times faster than our vision. And we can see how nature's ingenious devices work, and perhaps we can even imitate them.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

All art is but imitation of nature.

T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

oriental marionette imitating an occidental gesture.

He wore the headdress of a Red Indian and was making the sounds to match, a terrible howling that would have given a deaf man a headache.