Quotes on Imitation

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Author: Fred Allen

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

Author: John Berger

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

Author: James Fenton

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

Author: Barbara Hepworth

Imitation is the sincerest form of pain.

Author: Roy Horn

No man was ever great by imitation.

Author: Samuel Johnson

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

Author: Steve Lacy

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Author: George Lewes

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Author: Georg Lichtenberg

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Author: Herman Melville

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

Author: Orhan Pamuk

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

Author: Voltaire

I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.

Author: Gene Ween