Imitation Quotes

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.