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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.
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.
The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
It's fun watching people get jealous over imitation bags thinking it's real.
I would agree with you that there's 90% imitation and 10% innovation. That's true of any genre.
I never said, 'Lady Gaga is a poor imitation of me.' That was a completely made-up quote.
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Some Mexicans go to Hollywood and lose career in Mexico because they play imitation. I don't want this to happen to me.
Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be defined? In this way, can a reflection be altered?
...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.
I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.
Don`t imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that`s a way of avoiding knowing yourself.
The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.
No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
Mr. Pibb is a poor imitation of Dr. Pepper. Dude didn't even get his degree.
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.
And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.
With imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, I went out there and wanted to be Shawn Michaels 2.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.
Hated 'The Imitation Game.' Totally inaccurate. A gay man with a messy room? Don't buy it.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.
In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.
It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.
Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.
A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.
I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play.
No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.
Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch
I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.
My favorite movie is 'Imitation of Life.' It's just a true love story, and it really touched me.
The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.
I hate imitation jewelry, dark lipstick and most of all a shrill voice. This has spoiled many a picture of feminine loveliness.
We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.
When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.
I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ.
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.
In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation.
Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.
In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
'Imitation Girl' is a feature written and directed by Natasha Kermani. She's one of the founders of Illium Pictures who co-produced 'Pod.'
