Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

To demand perfection is a sure way to be disappointed in everybody, for you will be bound to think ill of others.

—Salvador Dali

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

—Salvador Dali

I do not take drugs—I am drugs.

—Salvador Dali

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

—Salvador Dali

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

—Salvador Dali

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

—Lionel Trilling

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

—G. K. Chesterton

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

—Dr. Joyce Brothers

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

—Fred Allen

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

—James Baldwin