Imitation Quotes

Through others we become ourselves.

Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women

The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality.

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

There is only one kind of love,
but there are a thousand imitations.

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.

Imitations only better the original.

All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Imitation is the greatest danger of the young [artist].

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

I know it's not ordinary. But who ever loved ordinary?

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.

Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

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

Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.

It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.

If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

A good imitation is the most perfect originality

You may imitate,
but never counterfeit.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

All art is an imitation of nature.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.