The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

Man is an idiot. He doesnt know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate. – Augusto Roa Bastos