Quotes About Imitation

Machinery makes men like itself.

A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.

I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.

My mom just told me the lines, because I didn't know how to read yet. I copied them and that's what I did.

Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.

It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

You see nature and then you try to emulate it.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.