Imitation Quotes - Page 4

• La imitación, si no es falsificación, es algo bueno. Surge de un impulso generoso y de un sentido realista de lo que puede y no puede hacerse.

  James Fenton

  Done, Realistic, Fine

  The Independent on Sunday, December 16, 1990.

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• I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day these grapes appeared in a painting by Gris, this time in a bowl; and the day after, the bowl appeared in a painting by Picasso.

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Next Day, One Day, Juan

  Jacques Lipchitz, H. Harvard Arnason (1972). “My life in sculpture”, Viking Adult

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• Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Son, Style

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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• If you live with alertness, you live rightly.
  If you live in imitation, you live wrongly.
  To me there is only one sin:
  And that is not to be yourself.
  And to me there is only one virtue:
  And that is to know yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Being Yourself, Alertness, Sin

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• Never imitate. The mind is an imitator, because imitation is very easy. To be someone is very difficult. To become someone is very easy - all that you need is to be a hypocrite, which is not much of a problem. Deep down you remain the same, but on the surface you go on painting yourself according to some image.

  Rajneesh

  Hypocrite, Mind, Needs

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• Each individual`s way is going to be different. Never follow anybody. That is the greatest calamity that can happen to a man. Once you start following somebody else, you become a carbon copy. You become an imitation.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Different, Way

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• The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.

  Henri Matisse

  Expression, Feelings, Related

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.149, Univ of California Press

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• La envidia es ignorancia, la imitación es suicidio.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Courage, Ignorance

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• Don`t imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that`s a way of avoiding knowing yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Knowing, Want, Way

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

  Barbara Hepworth

  Art, Past, My Own

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• El pasado: Nuestra cuna, no nuestra prisión; hay tanto peligro como atractivo en su glamour. El pasado sirve de inspiración, no de imitación, de continuación, no de repetición.

  Israel Zangwill

  Life, Forgiveness, Memories

  Israel Zangwill (1921). “The Voice of Jerusalem”

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• ¿Por qué debería copiar a este búho, a este erizo de mar? ¿Por qué debería intentar imitar a la naturaleza? Lo mismo podría intentar trazar un círculo perfecto.

  Pablo Picasso

  Sea, Circles, Perfect

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• Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Men, Copying, Generations

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• The characteristic of the first sort of religion is imitation. It insists on imitation: imitate Buddha, imitate Christ, imitate Mahavir, but imitate. Imitate somebody. Don`t be yourself, be somebody else. And if you are very stubborn you can force yourself to be somebody else. You will never be somebody else. Deep down you cannot be. You will remain yourself, but you can force so much that you almost start looking like somebody else.

  Rajneesh

  Being Yourself, Stubborn, Firsts

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• Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.

  Ken Danby

  Artist, Emulation, Development

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• I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

  Charles Olson

  Mean, Sound

  Charles Olson (1979). “Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews”

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• Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
  [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis
  Que les imitateurs.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Fool, Opinion, Herds

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• We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Medio

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.321

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• Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.

  Ann Landers

  Comfort, Wells, Originals

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• Hacer justo lo contrario también es una forma de imitación.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Education, Opposites, Dignity

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 96, 1799.

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• To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Opposites, Form

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 96, 1799.

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• Un artista original no puede copiar. Así que sólo tiene que copiar para ser original.

  Jean Cocteau

  Artist, Order, Original Art

  "Le Coq et l'Arlequin". Essay by Jean Cocteau, 1918.

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• La imitación, si es noble y general, asegura la mejor esperanza de originalidad.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Imagination, Noble, Originality

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• El genio artístico es una expansión de la imitación del mono.

  William Winwood Reade

  Expansion, Genius, Monkeys

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.394

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• All art is but imitation of nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Art, Philosophical, Garden

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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