Imitation Quotes

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

Imitation is the sincerest form of pain.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

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

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

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

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

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

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

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

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.