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• Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

  Brian Molko

  Being Yourself, Individuality, Proud

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• Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Imagination, Fool, Opinion

  "Clymène". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, V, 54, 1671.

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• A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Teacher, School, Artist

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• Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.

  Rajneesh

  Law, Understanding, Should

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• Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

  Eric Hoffer

  Attitude, Political, Glitter

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• There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Suicide, Ignorance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.162, Harvard University Press

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• No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Children, Nephew

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• Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

  John French Sloan

  Men, Borrowed, Originals

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• When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.

  Publilius Syrus

  Knowing, Mischief

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

  Frank Stella

  Imitating Others, Painting, Painter

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• The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Gains, Loses

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• It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.

  Mary Cassatt

  Admiration, Danger, Masters

  Mary Cassatt, Nancy Mowll Mathews (1984). “Cassatt and her circle: selected letters”, Abbeville Pr

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• A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.

  Tom Robbins

  Song, Art, Fall

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• The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

  Eric Hoffer

  Overcoming, Inferiority, Resentment

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Equal, Predecessors

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• To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Revenge, Refrain, Best Revenge

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• A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

  Hayden Christensen

  Country, Eight, Years

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

  George Henry Lewes

  Hands, Literature, May

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Copies, Oneself

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• Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

  David Riesman

  Freedom, Men, Class

  David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, Reuel Denney (2001). “The Lonely Crowd”, p.307, Yale University Press

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• I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Envious

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

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Mind, Littles, Mark

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• The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fun, Poke, Originals

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• There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Suicide, Hope

  "Essays: First Series, Self-Reliance". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Kind, Thousand

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 74, 1978.

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