Quotes with imitation

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  • Samuel Johnson No man was ever great by imitation.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson No one ever became great by imitation.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alfred de Vigny Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Eric Hoffer Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Umberto Eco 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
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Alan Cohen The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Wendell Phillips To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Marcus Aurelius To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Bill Griffith Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • John Berger 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
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Susan Sontag Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Barbara Hepworth [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
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe 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
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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