Imitating Quotes

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

  Frank Stella

  Imitating Others, Painting, Imitation

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• A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Humor, Admission

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• Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

  Marquis de Sade

  Character, Men, Sensitive Man

  Sade (marquis de) (1965). “Selected letters”

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• You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

  Honore de Balzac

  May, Imitation, Counterfeit

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

  Theodor Adorno

  Empathy, Imitating Others, Imitation

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.154, Verso

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Literature, Imitating Others

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.428, CUP Archive

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• Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

  James A. Baldwin

  Family, Education, Wisdom

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Fun, Kindness

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• When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sarcastic, Freedom, Sarcasm

  Passionate State of Mind (1955) p. 21

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• Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Imitation, Imitation Of Life

  Intentions "The Decay of Lying" (1891)

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• 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.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Track, Imitating Others

  "Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization". Book by Carol Dingle, p. 144, July 26, 2000.

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Writing, Reading Poetry

  The Sacred Wood "Philip Massinger" (1920)

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• What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Real, Essence, Form

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• Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, Creative, Bird

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• It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment, that is, envying and imitating not only males, but male fools, judging inner worth by outer performance, sacrificing being for doing, finding their identity in their worldly careers, not in their inner essence, in their physical and spiritual wombs and motherhoods. This is what Karl Stern called "the flight from woman."

  Peter Kreeft

  Spiritual, Real, Sacrifice

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• For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Believe, Compassion

  "Interview: Max Lucado on Storytelling, the Church, and Politics". Interview With Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.

  Jimmy Connors

  Wrestling, May, Persons

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• You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Should Have, Suits You, Special

  Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas F. Cleary (2005). “The Book of Five Rings”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff.

  Steve Vai

  Stuff, Way, Vans

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Bird, Tree

  Gore Vidal (1987). “Armageddon?: essays 1983-1987”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

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• Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.

  Bjork

  Girl, Support, Feminist

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• It's a kind of honour when I see how many people are imitating the style of how I make films.

  Errol Morris

  People, Style, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

  Kenny Loggins

  Thinking, Opposites, Males

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We don't need to shift our responsibilities onto the shoulders of some deified Spiritual Superman, or sit around and wait for Fate to come knocking at the door. We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it. When we do that, and stop imitating others and competing against them, things begin to work for us.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Believe, Responsibility

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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