Nachahmung / Imitation Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Nachahmung / Imitation:

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. Theodor W. Adorno

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Aesop

You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.

Tom Selleck

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

Israel Zangwill

Some Mexicans go to Hollywood and lose career in Mexico because they play imitation. I don't want this to happen to me.

Katy Jurado

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

Mae West

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

Orhan Pamuk

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

Steve Lacy

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Jonathan Swift

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Samuel Johnson

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

Samuel George Morton

For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself.

Lukas Foss

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

I love when people say 'Imitation Game' is such a crowd pleaser.

Morten Tyldum

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

Lena Horne

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

Michael Berryman

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.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Eric Hoffer

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.

James E. Gunn

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.

Hans Hofmann

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Mason Cooley

I'm into emulation, not imitation.

Chuck Inglish

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

Bill Griffith

My sister and I were not allowed expensive clothes. We so badly wanted these Fila sneakers as kids, but my mother took us down to the flea market and got imitation ones. Look at the early Destiny's Child videos. You'll see.

Solange Knowles

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

Charles Olson

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

George Santayana

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.

Charles Fort

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

Mike Watt

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.

John Berger

When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn't really work, they just sounded like they were trying to copy that whole style. Now the music sounds British, something real rather than an imitation.

Katy B

Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.

Roseanne Barr

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Wendell Phillips

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

Erno Rubik

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

Mary Astell

Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.

Vladimir Horowitz