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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
I feel like I was trying to imitate other people or trying to be something I wasn't.
Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.
We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.
I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.
I don't think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you're going to go out and imitate a Motown sound, you can't do it, it's impossible because of the studios and players involved and the atmosphere.
It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.
If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.
My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.
Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.
It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything.
What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.
As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them
Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.
As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.
If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.
To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.
We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be.
Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
When I'm composing a scene for the first time, I try to imitate my character. The less critical distance the better - particularly when they're acting badly.
I didn't want to imitate anybody. Any movement I knew, I didn't want to use.
A sociopath can imitate emotions, where a psychopath really doesn't have that capacity. They can't fool people into thinking anything and they're usually lacking major empathy for anybody besides themselves.
Because America leads the world by example, it's no surprise that some might seek to imitate our domestic rules and regulations on a global scale.
Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand
The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
You can't imitate; all our faces are constructed differently... and the vocal cords; otherwise, we'd all sound alike. I don't think anybody should ever teach by imitating.
One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.
Even if you perform with a great choreography, or a part of a great group, I believe you can’t imitate people’s aura.
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.
There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.
I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.
Girls see enough of this body that we can't imitate, that we'll never be able to obtain, these unrealistic expectations...it's better to look strong and healthy...
I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.
Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.
Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
If I need you I'll give you a signal.' What signal?" I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl
When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.
It's a real challenge to have someone perform a character vs. imitate a character.
My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.
The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.
People have always tried to imitate, but at the end of the day, no one can do me better than I can do me, you know?
