An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
These examples, though as unfit for the imitation, as they are repugnant to the genius of America, are notwithstanding. . . very instructive proofs of the necessity of some institution that will blend stability with liberty.
I would agree with you that there's 90% imitation and 10% innovation. That's true of any genre.
All art is but imitation of nature.
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr. , C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs. ]
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?
The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality.
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
This imitation Elvis may not be the king, but baby I'm the next best thing.
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement.
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
Imitation is criticism.
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.
Psychologists would say that the only two important forms of social learning are imitation and teaching, and they will spend time trying to figure out if animals imitate or teach. Sometimes they find they do; sometimes they find they don't. And so that's kind of the level of controversy there. Biologists would include imitation and teaching and a range of other kinds of social learning. So we would call that culture, whereas the psychologist wouldn't.
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.