“Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up.”
“I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.”
“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.”
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”
“It is the nature of creation, no one cares how much you are good or bad, just get famous, they all will walk after you.”