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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

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

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

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

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.'

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

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

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

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.