Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated.
Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.
I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone
Am I worthy in every respect of being imitated?
The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated
It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.
The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if that can be imagined. Everyone that I knew changed totally. But they took the worst things of his playing-that harsh sound; it just didn't come off the way they did it. The way he did it was great, Their way wasn't good at all. I just would listen to 'em, say: 'That's a Bird imitator', and that would be it; I would never care to listen to them again.
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.
I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.
Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it. He has a style which can be imitated, and sometimes is an imitator of himself.
Every man possesses that which is according to the image of God, for the gifts of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29). But only a few ? those who are virtuous and holy, and have imitated the goodness of God to the limit of human powers ? possess that which is according to the likeness of God.
I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.
Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!
If there is gossip to be garnered, garner it. If there are new dress styles to be imitated, imitate them. If there are hearts to be broken, break them. That's my girls.
The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually; they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.
For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.
