“Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.” IfsMayCharacterDoorsExampleBenefitsHighestImportanceWorthyOpeningInstructionImitationCourtesyEnabling Author:Michel de Montaigne
“When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.” MayLosesColorModelsHarmonyRangeToneImitation Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.” MaySchoolArtistTurnsTeacherTownsPainterCopiesHonourAbandonedImitation Author:Walter J. Phillips
“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.” MayArtIdeasLostTeacherTeachingMethodRateOriginalityImitationPupilsSecond RateBad Teacher Author:Stephen Neill
“Each person is born with a unique individuality, and each person has a destiny of his or her own. Imitation is crime, it is criminal. If you try to become a Buddha, you may look like Buddha, you may walk like him, you may talk like him, but you will miss. You will miss all that life was ready to deliver to you. Buddha happens only once.” IfsTryingLooksMayPersonsHappensMotivationalBornWalksDestinyMissingCrimeReadyUniqueIndividualityCriminalsImitationWill Miss You Author:Rajneesh