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«It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Originality
| Keywords:
imitation, imitations, originality
«Imitation is at least 50 percent of the creative process»
«Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.»
Author: Aesop
(Author, Fabulist)
| Keywords:
applaud, applauding, applauds, hiss, hissed, hisses, imitation, imitations, real thing, The Real Thing
«Imitation is the sincerest flattery»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Imagination,
Imitation
| Keywords:
flattery, imitation, sincerest
«It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man: but some, at least, of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a pas»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
admitted, characteristic, faculties, imitation, intuition, marked, pas, races, rapid, rapids, strongly
«Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.»
Author: Dr. Joyce Brothers
(Author, Columnist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
flatteries, flattery, imitation, imitations, sincerest
«Imitation is the sincerest form of television.»
«Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
analyzing, art critic, botanical, classify, critic, critical, criticizing, ignores, imitation, impertinence, in the first place, jargon, jargon of, literary, Literary Art, literary critic, literary criticism, literary work, mostly, pseudoscientific, reasoned, The Critic, touchstone, touchstones, twaddle, twiddle, twiddling, work of art
«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. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it. He should behave like those archers who, if they are skilful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| Keywords:
aiming, Archer, archers, a good deal, behave, bow, capabilities, compare, distant, emulate, emulates, emulating, footsteps, good deal, imitate, imitation, models, objective, outstanding, proceed, prowess, prudent, shoot, skilful, target, The Archer, The Archers, tracks
«Imitation is the most serious form of flattery»
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