#imitating

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#assign #dare #function #imitating #nature

Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#imitating #imitations #literature #literature-quotes #loitering

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician. ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#cradle #each #gestures #had #i

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#birds #hours #imitating #kindly #man

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. ↗

— Frank Stella

#imitating #learns #looking #other #painters

I love it. When they stop imitating me then I'll start wondering where I'm going wrong. Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new. ↗

— Erroll Garner

#down #every #every day #going #i

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

— Theodor Adorno

#being #beings #human #human being #human beings

When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.' ↗

— Hank Azaria

#call #celebrities #clubs #early #either

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody. ↗

— Bjork

#any #bore #death #feminists #follow

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#could #exactly #falling #falling in love #good