Quotes About Mimicry

Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow.

One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading.

Obviously I don't play the same way as Peter, but I could do a passable imitation of Peter Green; if you gave me a guitar I could sit here and probably get closer than anybody else.

My parents have a brilliant ear for languages and mimicry and accents, which I think I've inherited - that I can listen to things and pick them up.

It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.

It's easy to look smart when you're parroting smart people.)

Briefly, I tried to imitate her. But, I had only the form, not the substance.

I'm good at caricature.

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

Human children overimitate, reproducing each step regardless of its necessity. There is some reason why, now that it's our behavior, being slavishly imitative is superior to being thoughtful and efficient

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

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.

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.

Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.

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

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

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.

Nature constantly imitates art.