Quotes About Imitation

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

By Three Ways We May Learn Wisdom: First, By Reflection, Which Is Noblest. Second, By Imitation, Which Is Easiest. And Third, By Experience, Which Is The Bitterest...

Chartres Cathedral' after Corot, of the 'Fountains of Saint-Cloud' after Hubert Robert, and of 'Vesuvius' after Turner,

The kind of plagiarism which it is most difficult for any human individual to avoid (and even for whole nations, who persist in reproducing their faults and aggravate them in so doing) is self-plagiarism.

É que toda vez que queremos imitar alguma coisa que se passou realmente, esquecemos que essa coisa foi produzida não pela vontade de imitar, mas por uma força inconsciente e, por sua vez, real.

For the instinct of imitation and absence of courage govern society and the mob alike.

to our paying too much attention to the aspect, the manners of what a person is not but would like to be, in forming our first impression of that person. To the outward appearance affectation, imitation, the longing to be admired, whether by the good or by the wicked, add misleading similarities of speech and gesture.

No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Young, good-looking white women were the most desirable creatures in the world. It was hard not to want to imitate them; it was highly toxic too, as we would learn.

Children become like the things they love.

As a rule, however, we do not respect our children. We try to force them to follow us without regard to their special needs. We are overbearing with them, and above all, rude; and then we expect them to be submissive and well-behaved, knowing all the time how strong is their instinct of imitation and how touching their faith in and admiration of us.

Heaven on earth is knowing God, loving God, allowing Him to shine within us, and experiencing His power and Presence in all we think and do. Supernatural signs and wonders that we cannot ever produce in our own ability will follow. The apostle Paul admonished us to be imitators of God as dear children, to walk in love and as children of light.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Nobody can imitate me. You can always see impersonations of Katharine Hepburn and Marylin Monroe. But not me. Because I've always drawn on myself only.

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.

By no means was it the case that the church was entirely a spiritual wasteland in the fifteenth century. The Brethren of the Common Life, a movement of renewal in the Netherlands and northern Germany, spread twin ideals of godliness and human service through its schools, charities, and writings. The best-known writing was The Imitation of Christ, usually attributed to Thomas à Kempis (ca. 1380–1471).

the best brass bands and popular American and British singers the Philippines could imitate.