#imitators

... but now men who could work preferred to beg, and the artists forgot that their calling was noble and became imitators instead of creators, charging exorbitant sums for the rubbish they churned out with one eye closed. ↗

— Pauline Gedge

#beg #creators #forgot #imitators #rubbish

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#free #imitators #initiative #learn #mere

I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators. ↗

— Rudolph Valentino

#begining #i #i am #imitators #like

O imitators, you slavish herd! ↗

— Horace

#imitators #slavish #you

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#dissolved #divine #genius #her #hollywood

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#imitators #posterity

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#gives #his #imitators #prestige #real