Imitating Quotes

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

  Frank Stella

  Imitating Others, Painting, Imitation

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

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Humor, Admission

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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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• Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Fun, Kindness

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

  Constantin Brancusi

  Real, Essence, Form

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, Creative, Bird

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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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• By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West, the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads, by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance.

  Muhammad Asad

  Views, West, Degrees

  "Islam at the Crossroads" by Muhammad Asad, Dar Al-Andalus, (p. 70), 1982.

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• 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.

  George Saunders

  Hoboken, Knows

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.

  Ian MacKaye

  Children, Voice, Sound

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• There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way... until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth.' That's a perfect description: how did Tolkien know, a quarter century before anyone ever saw a picture of Io? Talk about Nature imitating Art.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Art, Rocks, Dragons

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2010: Odyssey Two”, p.110, RosettaBooks

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• In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Philosophical, Thinking

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• I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.

  Lamorne Morris

  Mother, Hero, Mean

  "Out to Lunch With: Lamorne Morris, Who Spills on His Bad Church Behavior and Worst Date Ever" by Megan Angelo, www.glamour.com. April 25, 2012.

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• 15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

  Thom Yorke

  Dancing, Trying, Looks

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