Imitation Quotes

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

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

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

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

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.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.

All art is but imitation of nature.

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in 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.

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

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

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

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.

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

The worst acting is about imitation.

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.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

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.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

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