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Letter "I" » imitation
«Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength»
«That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.»
Author: Lydia M. Child
| Keywords:
beseechingly, bungle, bungling, deprecate, deprecates, deprecating, imitation, imitations, moans, pines, roaring, screech, screeching, sings, spontaneous, truthful, warble, warbled, warbling, whispering
«The art of being a woman can never consist of being a bad imitation of a man»
«The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.»
Author: Stephen Neill
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
Bad art, imitation, imposes, methods, originality, pupils, rate, second rate
«To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship»
«Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
artistic, description, expressions, extreme, imitation, Monkeys, realism, realistic, tempted
«Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are an imitation of fighting»
«There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better, or for worse as his portion.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
arrives, conviction, envy, imitation, imitations, suicide, suicides
«Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
borrowed, borrows, imitation, imitations, judicious, original, originality, originals, writers
«Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation»
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