149 Quotes About Imitation

It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.

My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the value of their tints, and by which nature has been so happily imitated.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.