
“One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that.”
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
1960s
Source: 'A period of Exploration', McChesney, as quoted in The New York school – the painters & sculptors of the fifties, Irving Sandler, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978, p 35
“One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that.”
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
Interview with Anna Tilroe, 1987; as cited on collected quotes on the website of Gerhard Richter: on 'Abstract paintings' https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/quotes/subjects-2/abstract-paintings-7
1980's
On his journey as an actor in “Edward James Olmos Reflects on the Legacy of ‘Stand and Deliver,’ Three Decades Later” https://remezcla.com/features/film/edward-james-olmos-stand-and-deliver-30-years/ in Remezcla (2019 May 30)
Discourse no. 6, delivered on December 10, 1774; vol. 1, p. 150.
Discourses on Art
Letter to H. E. Kramer, 14-11-1927, as quoted in: Bram van Velde, A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger, Deurne 1994, p. 46 (English translation: Charlotte Burgmans)
1920's
“When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.”
Section 33
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
“I imitate
a memory of belief
that I do not own.”
"The Division of Parts"
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)