Pastoral Resources

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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.

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.

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

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

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

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

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.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.