Imitating Quotes

I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it’s because my specialties are rapping and imitating others

You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

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

Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Now life is imitating art.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius.

Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in Hoboken isn't Faulkneresque.

It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.