(156 quotes found)
“Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.”
Eric Hoffer
“Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.”
John Berger
“Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.”
Voltaire
“Imitation is the most serious form of flattery”
Proverb
“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.”
George Santayana
“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.”
Fred Allen
“The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.”
Erno Rubik
“Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse”
Frans de Waal
“A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious, and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and terror, with which to accomplish its purgation of these emotions.”
Aristotle
“Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.”
Johann Georg Zimmermann
