(156 quotes found)
“O imitators, you slavish herd!”
Horace
“The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.”
Umberto Eco
“Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are an imitation of fighting”
Jonathan Swift
“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life”
Oscar Wilde
“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”
“She had caprices of a marvelous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?”
Stendhal
“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .”
Barbara Hepworth
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
“When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.”
Ray Charles
