Quotes About Imitation

Or, when an artist hungry for validation finally receives some, there's a temptation to play to those who offered it, and with that comes the risk of imitating oneself, producing paler, anemic versions of the vital art that you made with no notion of where it was headed, before you'd made anything to imitate.

Copying lies at the heart of creativity.

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

We surround ourselves with people like ourselves. You become what you hang around.

The dog is dressed just like me at the climax of my act.

It's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

And the way he follows you around all the time. It's like he's been taking pointers from your dog.

We are all copy cats. The only original 'thing' is God, And "him", hell, most of us know as little as we know cats.

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Parodiando. Es decir, odiando un poco...

It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators.

People cannot see anything that really is without becoming like it.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Courage is essentially competitive and imitative.

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

If you wish to know God, you should not only be like the Son, but you should be the Son himself.

We mock the things we are to be.

Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.

TEACHER Let us begin. Repeat after me. I would like -- STUDENT I wud like -- TEACHER To feed your fingertips -- STUDENT To feed yur fingerteeps -- TEACHER To the wolverines.

TEACHER Next. I am afraid -- STUDENT I em afred -- TEACHER We are out -- STUDENT Wee are out -- TEACHER Of badgers. STUDENT Of badjurs. TEACHER Would you accept -- STUDENT Wud you accept -- TEACHER A wolverine -- STUDENT A wolver-eene -- TEACHER In its place?

The only approved American models were James and Twain, neither of whom could be imitated.

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.