Imitation Quotes
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Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
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Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
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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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Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.
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This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer or maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?
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Imitation is criticism.
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Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.
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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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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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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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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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The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
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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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Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
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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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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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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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Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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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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A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.
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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 goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
