Imitation Quotes - Page 6

It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.

It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all.

Limitations only go so far.

Imitation is flattery

Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.

The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.

Your limitations create your sound.

Discipling involves instruction and imitation.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

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

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

Briefs need limitations and invitations

You will never know your limitations until you find them.

True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge.

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.

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.

Wisdom lies in understanding our limitations.

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.

You don't want it to be a replica or an imitation. You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.

I didn't know I had a sense of limitation until I got into the greater world.

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.