Top Imitation Quotes
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
Mae West
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe
I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.
James Gunn
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell
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I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
Mae West 
84% of people like this quote
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe
73% of people like this quote
I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.
James Gunn
71% of people like this quote
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
67% of people like this quote
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell
61% of people like this quote
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
Judith Butler
60% of people like this quote
I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.
David Baker
59% of people like this quote
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
Charles Olson
58% of people like this quote
Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
Michael Berryman
58% of people like this quote
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
Erno Rubik
56% of people like this quote
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Friedrich NietzscheMason CooleyMohandas GandhiSamuel JohnsonLucius Annaeus SenecaMarcus Tullius Cicero VoltaireGeorge SantayanaEric HofferGertrude SteinCharles Caleb ColtonMae WestTheodor Adorno ConfuciusGeorg C. Lichtenberg
Jonathan SwiftHerman Melville AesopSteve LacyMary AstellEdgar Allan PoeGeorge Henry LewesFred AllenWendell PhillipsBill GriffithLukas FossDietrich Fischer-DieskauHorace WalpoleCharles OlsonTom Selleck
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