To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so its…

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy - at least until we have become as clever as they are.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

I've seen the little tidal waves that I've caused in the music industry, and how people are becoming more evolved in their images. And there are a lot of new M…

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something e…