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The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.
If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.
The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.
I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.
Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.
My kitchen is an imitation, really, of my mum's, except for the big American fridge.
As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them
Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.
How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.
That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.
There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
I never said, 'Lady Gaga is a poor imitation of me.' That was a completely made-up quote.
The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Hated 'The Imitation Game.' Totally inaccurate. A gay man with a messy room? Don't buy it.
All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
I would agree with you that there's 90% imitation and 10% innovation. That's true of any genre.
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.
My favorite movie is 'Imitation of Life.' It's just a true love story, and it really touched me.
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.
I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
Godzilla' took two months because it required a two-hour-plus score. 'Imitation Game' was three weeks.
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation.
For film fans to support 'The Imitation Game' means so much to me, the entire cast and film-making team.
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.
A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.
Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation
Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' education.
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.