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Life doesn't imitate art ... it is art!
— John Lennon
In literature imitations do not imitate.
— Mark Twain
Insist on your life, never imitate ... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand
— Dan Brown
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
— Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
If one keeps on adapting, their contribution will be limited. Theycan only imitate but never create. — Ravindra Shukla
Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion.
— S. E. Entsua-Mensah
Goddess does not want us to imitate some ideal of perfection, but to be our true selves.
— Deborah Harkness
God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
— Oswald Chambers
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.
— Clement Greenberg
Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.
— Pope Francis
I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.
— Jermaine Dupri
Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.
— Ornette Coleman
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
— Christian Slater
Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.
— Allan Sherman
Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.
— T. S. Eliot
What do you think? she asked, pouting her lips attempting to imitate a model . . . or a duck. I wasn't sure which.
— Jamie McGuire
You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
— Honore De Balzac
It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.
— Frederick The Great
The snake charmer should not touch the serpents before his child's eyes, knowing that the child will try to imitate him in all things.
— Eileen Goudge
Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.
— Robert Rodriguez
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.
— Edward Hirsch
We must know Jesus before we can imitate Him.
— Charles M. Sheldon
I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.
— Clifton Collins Jr.
Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.
— Walter Lippmann
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
— Yogi Berra
People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.
— Harrison Ford
A woman's beauty should not imitate art.
— Lionel Suggs
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
— James Baldwin
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to BE art.
— Carrie Fisher
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
— Woody Allen
That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.
— Leigh Newman
To look, to record, to inscribe, to reproduce, to imitate, to reveal, to imagine are for me the seven keys of photographic imagination.
— Jean-Francois Chevrier
My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.
— Dan Fogelberg
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
— Salvador Dali
When you build a career, you should never imitate anybody.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Its best to live imperfectly happy living a life of your own choice than to imitate someone else and be a plastic doll.
— Upasana Banerjee
When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.
— Pope Francis
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
— Quintilian
Men for the most part follow in the footsteps and imitate the actions of others ...
— Niccolo Machiavelli
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.
— Miriam Makeba
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
— Albert Schweitzer
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller ... who always proportions his stay in any place.
— Henry Fielding
Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them.
— Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
You know what I hate the most? People that imitate owls.
— Emo Philips
I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
— Bernardo Bertolucci
Art does not imitate, but interpret.
— Giuseppe Mazzini
The angels would become incarnate if they could, so that they might come to earth to imitate the example and virtues of the Son of God!
— Vincent De Paul
Do something good and someone might imitate it.
— Albert Schweitzer
Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.
— Francesca Marciano
For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.
— Leon Krier
We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
You must then learn to reproduce, or imitate, the sounds which are different from your own way of speaking, and to do that you must drill. This
— Robert Blumenfeld
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
— E. O. Wilson
If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?
— Richard Bach
Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.
— Morgan Brittany
Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.
— Charles Dickens
So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..
— Stanley Fish
Making things more observable makes them easier to imitate, which makes them more likely to become popular.
— Jonah Berger
If you imitate someone, you owe them a royalty check. If you emulate them, you don't. There's a big difference. Check your lawyer.
— Stephen Colbert
I'm not trying to emulate or imitate. But I do believe that I embody that spirit from Robert Johnson on up.
— CeeLo Green
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
— Jean-Claude Killy
Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate.
— New York Times
Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.
— Carlo Grante
A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
— John Vianney
Our calling is to imitate Jesus in his willingness to suffer rather than to follow the ways of the powers.
— Richard J. Mouw
It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.
— Meryl Streep
Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.
— Clark Terry
Insist on yourself; never imitate.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
I imitate everyone except myself.
— Pablo Picasso
Many imitate limits, not unlimited potentials.
— Akiane Kramarik
Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
— Edward Hirsch
