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#imitation

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #imitation




The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.


Orson Welles


#art #enemy #limitations

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.


Simon Wiesenthal


#crimes #humanity #justice #limitations #must

..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.


Henry James


#greatness #imitation #art

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.


Israel Zangwill


#continuation #cradle #danger #glamour #imitation

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.


David Baker


#always #assimilation #ever #got #i

It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know nothing of the ultimate orientation or of the outlet toward which we travel, and the stream sweeps us to a formula of life from which there is no returning. Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.


René Dubos


#individuality #limitation #potential #self #life

Never limit yourself to what you can't do, but to what you have the power to do with what you have.


Nadège Richards


#life #limitations #love #power #stand-out

In Paris, Julien’s position with regard to Madame de Renal would very soon have been simplified; but in Paris love is the child of the novels. The young tutor and his timid mistress would have found in three or four novels, and even in the lyrics of the Gymnase, a clear statement of their situation. The novels would have outlined for them the part to be played, shown them the model to copy; and this model, sooner or later, albeit without the slightest pleasure, and perhaps with reluctance, vanity would have compelled Julien to follow. In a small town of the Aveyron or the Pyrenees, the slightest incident would have been made decisive by the ardour of the climate. Beneath our more sombre skies, a penniless young man, who is ambitious only because the refinement of his nature puts him in need of some of those pleasures which money provides, is in daily contact with a woman of thirty who is sincerely virtuous, occupied with her children, and never looks to novels for examples of conduct. Everything goes slowly, everything happens by degrees in the provinces: life is more natural.


Stendhal


#innocence #life #love #naturalness #love

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.


Jiddu Krishnamurti


#imitation #knowledge #illusion

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.


Steve Lacy


#awful #came #collective #going #i






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