Imitation

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake c...

Pedro Almodovar

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of b...

Albert Pinkham Ryder

We get our voice from the voices of others. Read promiscuously. Imitate, copy, but become your own voice.

Colum McCann

Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.

Unknown

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Baldwin

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

Anonymous

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad po...

Confucius

Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else.

Unknown