An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
I know it's not ordinary. But who ever loved ordinary?
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators.
I'm a very big Notorious B. I. G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.
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.
The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.
I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play. It was just a little thing that I did because I really liked the film and I liked Benedict [Cumberbatch] and I loved Morten's [director Morten Tyldum] previous film, Headhunters. For me, it was something I did thinking, "Wow, this is a lovely quality piece of work. "
Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.
No single character is ever so great that a nation can afford to form itself upon it. Imitation belittles. This appears in the instance of the Chinese. The Chinese are so many Confucii; in miniature. And so with the Jews. Moses, the lawgiver, is poorly represented by Moses, the old clothesman ; or even by Dives, the hanker.
Through others we become ourselves.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play.
We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.
You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
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.
Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself. . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.