Imitation Quotes

That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.

Bradford Cox
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.

Wolfgang Laib
- Art
- Today
- Beautiful

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.

Elena Ferrante
- Birthday
- Flowers
- Trash
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
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.

Aristide Maillol
- Achieve
- Paint
- Next
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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.

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

Hayden Christensen
- Imitation
- Darth Vader