“The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.”
William Morris Hunt
“Scientists seek to know the mind of god while engineers seek to imitate Him.”
Mark Grant
“Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate”
William Arthur Ward
“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“All art is but imitation of nature.”
Seneca
“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”
Marva Collins
“We do not imitate, but are a model to others”
Pericles
