Imitation Quotes

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

I don’t know what will become of this piece. Our brave critics will no doubt charge me with imitating Ravel’s Bolero. Too bad – this is how I hear war.

We wouldn’t want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We’d be rich!

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

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.

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.