Quotes about Imitation

is the world or the church is actually irrelevant. The point is simply that the devil is going to bring forward people (whether in the church or out of it) so much like true Christians, yet not Christians, that even the servants of God will not be able to tell them apart.

I think Justin Bieber and Zayn have both been listening to me a lot, and they basically wanna be me.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature

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.

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.

Jesus is to God as we must be to Jesus.

Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.

The devil is God's ape!

The Christian should take nothing short of Christ for his model.