imitation

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“Be original… right now there’s so much copycatting, mimicking, sounding alike, and imitation. Find your production, your sound… and be original even if it ain’t hittin’.”

— Snoop Dogg

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by Anthony Burrill

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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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“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”

– Kurt Cobain

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A movement forms when:
– the work keeps evolving while imitators stay static
– the idea expands beyond a single form
– viewers begin to reference the thinking, not the image

As Marcel Duchamp showed, once the idea is stronger than the object, imitation loses its power.

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