Quotes About Imitation

No matter what you teach the child, he insists on behaving like his parents.

So "borrow" an idea from someone you admire—an idea that really appeals to you personally.

learning from something or someone you admire is not stealing. It's called "being influenced by.

She's so fake if you look behind her neck it says "made in china".

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Imitate. Don't be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

Good designers copy; great designers steal.

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

When you mean a show like this, you have to say to me a show exactly like this, the way it was done.

Larry David, he's my hero. I want to be him - I want to act like him - everything.

I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

I've been to Madame Tussaud's. Three times.

Skeuomorphic is the technical term for incorporating old, familiar ideas into new technologies, even though they no longer play a functional role. Skeuomorphic designs are often comfortable for traditionalists, and indeed the history of technology shows that new technologies and materials often slavishly imitate the old for no apparent reason except that is what people know how to do. Early

The trouble with capturing one is that that original gesture is almost impossible to equal or improve upon.

Bad artists copy, good artists steal.

You know what Picasso says. 'Bad artists copy, good artists steal.

Picasso says. 'Bad artists copy, good artists steal.

Cristo jamais será o Salvador daqueles que não sabem o que é seguir o seu exemplo. A fé salvadora e a graça real da conversão sempre produzirão alguma conformidade com a imagem de Jesus (Cl 3.10).

For this reason, Waldorf preschool teachers try to act in ways that are worthy of imitation and at the same time instructive. Rather than admonishing children to speak softly or work carefully, teachers model these behaviors continually.

Does art imitate what it represents? In offering the imitation of an object, artists make something different out of that object. Thus they only pretend to imitate.

Gringos! They have copied us again

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.