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

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

You may imitate, but never counterfeit. – Honore de Balzac

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. – W. Winwood Reade