“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”— James Baldwin
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”— James Baldwin
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have borrowed in a new light.”— Washington Allston
“The truth is that the writers who most influenced me were not the ones I loved best, but the ones I was most capable of imitating.”— Gerald Brenan
“An imitator is a man who resides in the letter of the law, and does not enter into the spirit of it.”— James Northcote
“All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and imitation of the revolution of the universe.”— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“The realistic value of a work of art is completely independent of its properties of imitation.”— Fernand Léger
“For I have to confess that I believe that the graphic arts are the expression of the imaginative life, and that the more we are preoccupied with the expression of that life the less we are able to be preoccupied with the exact imitation of objects.”— Roger Fry