#imitate

A good composer does not imitate; he steals. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#does #good #imitate #steals

If one keeps on adapting, their contribution will be limited. They can only imitate but never create. ↗

— Ravindra Shukla

#create #imitate #inspirational #youth #inspirational

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#homer #imitated #nature #thirst #vengeance

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will. ↗

— Allan Sherman

#else #imitate #might #own #program

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

#grow #grow up #imitates #itself #medium

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#immature #mature #poets #steal

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. ↗

— Martha Graham

#another #audience #behavior #being #body

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#carver #easy #good #i #i think

Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#anything #bear #because #find #guitar

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. ↗

— Ernst Fischer

#i #imitate #life #want