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It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.


Leonardo da Vinci
Tags: Work Than Better
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The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.


William Morris Hunt
Tags: Nature Her Art
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.


Stendhal
Tags: Always Years Ways
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The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.


Adolf Hitler
One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.
Athanasius
Tags: Life Trying Mind
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Christian Slater
Tags: Me Life Make
Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Tags: Out Never Go
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
John Ruskin
Tags: Time Good Like
When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.
Doug Henning
Tags: Alone Me Out
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Tags: Good Men Life
The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.
John Tavener
Tags: Music Like Always
When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking.
Ira Glass
Tags: You Who Would
In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself.
Mark Wahlberg