Top Imitating Quotes
If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.
David Ogilvy
I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
Charles Kuralt
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
Steve Earle
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
Plutarch
They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.
David O. Selznick
Erroll Garner 
Constantin Brancusi 
Marquis de Sade 
Plutarch 
Gore Vidal 
Toots Thielemans 
David O. Selznick All Imitating Quotes
If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.
David Ogilvy 
58% of people like this quote
I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
Charles Kuralt
58% of people like this quote
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
Steve Earle
56% of people like this quote
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
Plutarch
54% of people like this quote
They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.
David O. Selznick
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One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
Frank Stella
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Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
Marquis de Sade
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The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
Theodor Adorno
50% of people like this quote