“All people imitate their creations. Today's fashions imitate our principal creations, which are electronic. Women imitate light bulbs or TV sets; their clothes glow, their hair is luminous. They radiate. They can be turned on and off.”
“...Art strives after her by imitation,as the disciple imitates the master;Art, as it were, is the Grandchild of Creation.”
“Doing a jigsaw was not an intelligence test, or a personality assesment programme; it was a pursuit that lay somewhere between creation and imitation and discovery and reverie.”
“Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? I believe life imitates art the imitates life.”
“An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”
“The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.”