Imitation Quotes

Quotes on imitation, originality, and where art begins.

These imitation quotes explore the tension between originality and copying, including the idea that even original writers borrow from one another. A few lines connect imitation to Art, gender performance, and film franchises that inspire copycats.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Quotes by Aesop

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

Quotes by A. S. Byatt

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Voltaire

Imitation is the sincerest form of pain.

Quotes by Roy Horn

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

Quotes by Peyton Manning

The worst acting is about imitation.

Quotes by Paul Guilfoyle

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

Quotes by Michael Berryman

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Quotes by Mason Cooley

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Marcus Aurelius

All art is but imitation of nature.

Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

Quotes by Judith Butler

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Quotes by Gertrude Stein

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

Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Quotes by Eric Hoffer

I'm into emulation, not imitation.

Quotes by Chuck Inglish

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

Quotes by Bill Griffith

My kitchen is an imitation, really, of my mum's, except for the big American fridge.

Quotes by Big Narstie

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Quotes by Alfred de Vigny

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