Imitate Quotes

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.

But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

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.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.