Imitation Quotes
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This imitation Elvis may not be the king, but baby I'm the next best thing.
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It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.
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Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
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You feel touched by a movie in a good or bad way or you have a strong reaction to something that's totally artificial, to an imitation of life. But that imitation of life that you see on the screen can affect you almost as if it was real.
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The Democratic party of the nation ain’t dead, though it’s been givin’ a lifelike imitation of a corpse for several years.
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I have formulated my own directing style in my head, proceeding without any unnecessary imitation of others.
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Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.
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Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation
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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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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.
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Imitation is criticism.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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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.
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Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.
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When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.
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Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.
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For me, it's always very beautiful that you can do something today in the 21st century which is not an imitation but which has a connection to art which is 4,000 years old.
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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.
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The worst acting is about imitation.
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The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
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If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.
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I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.
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The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
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Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.
