The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

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.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

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.

Imitation is the sincerest form of pain.

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.