Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. Votes: 4
VoltaireImitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. Votes: 3
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonImitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness. Votes: 3
Oscar WildeImitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation. Votes: 3
RajneeshImitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators. Votes: 3
Mary Parker FollettImitation is the greatest form of flattery, but worship is the greatest form of adoration. Votes: 3
Jayce O'NealImitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning. Votes: 3
George Bernard ShawImitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves. Votes: 3
Alexandre VinetThere is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. Votes: 2
Francois de La RochefoucauldTo be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. Votes: 2
Wendell PhillipsAlmost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. Votes: 2
Samuel JohnsonI know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different. Votes: 2
AnnaLynne McCordThe Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism Votes: 0
Walter GropiusIn everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroAdaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiAdaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. Votes: 0
Israel ZangwillWho has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others. Votes: 0
Ernst Moritz ArndtThe bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheTheres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof. Votes: 0
Ahmet ErtegunIf you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation. Votes: 0
Denis WaitleyThrow away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality. Votes: 0
Charles Haddon SpurgeonThere is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation. Votes: 0
C. K. PrahaladThe goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals. Votes: 0
Richard LovelaceHow life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation. Votes: 0
Stephen KingThat's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation. Votes: 0
Bradford CoxMost sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. Votes: 0
Jonathan SwiftPhotography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature. Votes: 0
Heinrich HeineThe power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch Votes: 0
Theodor AdornoThe opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation. Votes: 0
Orhan PamukI would agree with you that there's 90% imitation and 10% innovation. That's true of any genre. Votes: 0
DJ ShadowA clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisArt should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. Votes: 0
John LydonIs there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity? Votes: 0
John Stuart Mill...all cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small... Votes: 0
Muhammad AsadMen walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation. Votes: 0
Niccolo MachiavelliI hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others. Votes: 0
Sir Fulke GrevilleOf what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? Votes: 0
Alfred de VignyIn the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation. Votes: 0
Theodor AdornoThe paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation. Votes: 0
Piero ScaruffiIf you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy. Votes: 0
Shannon L. AlderIgnorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. Votes: 0
Mary AstellNo other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life. Votes: 0
John CassianAnd there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like. Votes: 0
Regina KingTo do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. Votes: 0
Georg C. LichtenbergWhat's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? Votes: 0
Rita Mae BrownI'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up. Votes: 0
Gene Ween