A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way. . . until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth. ' That's a perfect description: how did Tolkien know, a quarter century before anyone ever saw a picture of Io? Talk about Nature imitating Art.
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.
You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating.
Back in the day, music imitated life. Now it's the opposite way around: life is imitating music. It's like whatever the rappers say, people think that that's how we're supposed to be; but back then, we kind of looked at the streets, and we made music for that.
Across from me at the next row of supports Jim raised his hand and touched his fingers to his thumb a few times, imitating an opening and closing beak. Negotiate. He wanted me to engage a lunatic who had already turned four people into smoking meat. Okay. I could do that. “Alright, Jeremy!” I yelled into the night. “Give me the salamander and I won’t cut your head off!” Jim put his hand over his face and did some shaking. I thought he was laughing, but I couldn’t be sure.
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.
My advice to any budding artist is never to be satisfied with imitating others. This is but a means to an end. A serious artist will work with intensity to discover themselves, their own personal vision. I believe this is a fundamental aspect of the creative path.
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things. . . it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
When we appeal to the throne of grace we do so through Mary, honoring God by honoring His Mother, imitating Him by exalting her, touching the most responsive chord in the sacred heart of Christ with the sweet name of Mary.
Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.
I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it’s because my specialties are rapping and imitating others
It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.
The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.
The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius.
Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.
