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One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it’s because my specialties are rapping and imitating others
I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.
Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding.
Because of jealousy you are in constant suffering; you become mean to others. And because of jealousy you start becoming phony, because you start pretending. You start pretending things that you don't have, you start pretending things which you CAN'T have, which are not natural to you. You become more and more artificial. Imitating others, competing with others, what else can you do? If somebody has something and you don't have it, and you don't have a natural possibility of having it, the only way is to have some cheap substitute for it.