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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure. ↗

— James Wolcott

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I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

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The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that. ↗

— Mike Gordon

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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

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I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

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I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first. ↗

— Jermaine Dupri

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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

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