Imitation Quotes
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He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.
John Stuart Mill -
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
Rita Mae Brown
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Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
William Winwood Reade -
It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.
Martin Luther -
Imitation can be commercial suicide.
William Bernbach -
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
George Bernard Shaw -
There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.
C. K. Prahalad
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Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.
William James -
If you're playing someone who has lived, there's the risk of imitation, or whether you focus on the essence of who that character was as opposed to physical mannerisms. So, you have to figure out what it is ultimately that this particular adaptation of the story, whether it's fiction or not, is trying to say.
Hayley Atwell -
Art is but imitation of nature.
Vincent Van Gogh -
This imitation Elvis may not be the king, but baby I'm the next best thing.
Jimmy Buffett -
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen King -
The Conquest is not a film about Nicolas Sarkozy - it's a film about political conquest. It's a Shakespearean expression, where we have all the elements of a drama, both political and personal at the same time. The decors and the costumes are all based on real photos - I wanted to be as close to reality as possible. Nicola Piovani's theatrical music gives a distance that's almost Chaplinesque, there's something quite funny. There's no imitation, no caricature, no parodie - it's realism with a distance where the dialogues are often quite funny.
Xavier Durringer
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The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
Israel Zangwill -
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
John Stuart Mill -
Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation
William Shakespeare -
We stand for a use of color free from the imitation of things as colored objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the material of color is expressed in all of the manifold possibilities our subjectivity can create.
Carlo Carra -
I have formulated my own directing style in my head, proceeding without any unnecessary imitation of others.
Yasujirō Ozu -
By this point I was eager to emulate Guleed and merge unobtrusively with the imitation French farmhouse fittet cupboard and counter unit behind me.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Imitation is the greatest danger of the young artist.
Alexey Brodovitch -
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
Judith Butler -
Imitation is criticism.
William Blake -
Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.
Albert Pinkham Ryder