imitation
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“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
– Kurt Cobain
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follow in someone’s footsteps
idiom
: to do the same things that another person has done before.
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“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
— Herman Melville
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“You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.”
— Milt Jackson
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“Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be only after you have shown confidence being yourself.”
— Suzy Kassem
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what happens when you let your art be ‘influenced’ by other artists? – Tara Leaver
“And the big daddy that I learned from all this: I actually CAN’T paint like other artists, and nor do I want to. That’s the best thing this exercise has taught me over the years; it’s fun to experiment, to try out what other artists are doing, but if I only ever did that I’d be unfulfilled and dissatisfied. I’d be surrounded by a vegetarian buffet and craving steak.”
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follow in someone’s footsteps
idiom
: to do the same things that another person has done before.