Imitation Quotes
23 quotations about Imitation
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
Imitation belittles.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Imitation is suicide.
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
No man was ever great by imitation.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks will make no discoveries.
Authors on Imitation
Fred A. Allen
Honore De Balzac
Christian Nevell Bovee
Jean Cocteau
Salvador Dali
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Baltasar Gracian
Eric Hoffer
Samuel Johnson
Carl Jung
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Wendell Phillips
Pablo Picasso
W. Winwood Reade
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Arthur Schopenhauer
Seneca
Sir Richard Steele
Gertrude Stein