Imitation Quotes
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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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Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
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Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.
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He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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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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This imitation Elvis may not be the king, but baby I'm the next best thing.
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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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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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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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Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation
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Imitation is criticism.
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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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Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.
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Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
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The worst acting is about 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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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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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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The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
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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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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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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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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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I let his rose wither in a vase on my desk, a vase painfully empty of flowers since the long-ago time when, on my birthday, Mario would give me a cattleya, in imitation of Swann. In the evening the flower was already black and bent on its stem. I threw it in the trash.
