Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.
Imitation cannot go above its model.
Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
Imitation is criticism.
I thawt I thaw a putty tat. ” “I did, I did thee a putty tat" Finished with his Tweety Bird imitation, he grinned unpleasantly at me. “Now, then, luv, let’s get down to business
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
. . . the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, a more ductile material than meaning. . . It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself.
In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.
By close inspection. . . you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the value of their tints, and by which nature has been so happily imitated.
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.
The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation. . . kitsch
I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
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.
The brain alone is intricate beyond mapping, powerful beyond imitation, rich in diversity, self-protecting, and self-renewing. The secret is that it is grown, not built.
Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.
You will respect my authori-tah!' Oberon said, in a passable imitation of Eric Cartman. I reminded him that I needed to concentrate. Sometimes dogs forget; they just get too excited.