Imitation Quotes - page 2

My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular? (John Constable)
I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. In nature everything is always right: the structure is right, the proportions are good, the colours fit the forms. If you imitate that in painting, it becomes false. View quote
Gerhard Richter
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections. View quote
Edmund Burke
We [The Futurists] stand for a use of colour free from the imitation of objects and things as coloured objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the material of colour is expressed in all of the manifold possibilities our subjectivity can create. View quote
Carlo Carrà
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation. View quote
Thomas Gainsborough
You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood. View quote
Tom Selleck
Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus - not imitation... From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life - all movement and rhythm - time and light, color and mood - in short, all reality in Form and Thought. View quote
Hans Hofmann
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. View quote
Hans Hofmann
I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
Look at your [English] ladies of quality are they not forever parting with their husbands - forfeiting their reputations - and is their life aught but dissipation? In common genteel life, indeed, you may now and then meet with very fine girls - who have politeness, sense and conversation - but these are few - and then look at your trademen's daughters - what are they? poor creatures indeed! all pertness, imitation and folly. (Frances Burney)
I hold the imitation of colour to be the greatest difficulty of art. View quote
El Greco
Art only begins where Imitation ends. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? View quote
Alfred de Vigny
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. View quote
Horace Walpole
It appears to [Nietzsche] that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises himself ... and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe's man ... a spectator of the world ... [Third] Schopenhauer's man ... voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth. View quote
Georg Brandes
Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their sole object would have been to write correctly, to conform to the manner of the period. In practice, their conforming individualism means an imitation, studiously concealed, of the eccentricities of poems which really are individual. View quote
Laura Riding
We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers. View quote
Oswald Mosley
Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. View quote
George Orwell
The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man. View quote
Warren G. Harding
By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West, the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads, by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance. (Muhammad Asad)
Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress. View quote
African Spir
Each life makes its own imitation of immortality. View quote
Stephen King
Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction. View quote
Pauline Kael
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds. View quote
Lydia Maria Child