Anyone who has lived Is an historian & an artifact, For…

The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many…

— William Gibson

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

— Bernard Berenson

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

— Geraldine Brooks

Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically

— Tim Crane

In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or…

— Marshall McLuhan

Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution.

— Henry Petroski

“An artifact can be thought of as a meeting point—an “interface” in today’s terms—between an “inner” environment, the substance and organization of the artifact…

— Herbert A. Simon

The smallest detail can contribute to the whole, I think particularly with emotion, you want it to be as authentic as it can, whether…

— Peter Weir

The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.

— David Shields

“Let's just call it an artifact of a misspent youth.”

— Brent Weeks

“Parcifal is one of those corkscrew artifact of culture in which you get the subjective sense that you've learned something from it, something valuable…

— Philip K. Dick

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet…

— Terence McKenna

“It’s the invention of clothes, not nature, that made “private parts” private.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A.: Whatever; you must know how it works. An artifact containing... raw feelings, unprocessed sights and sounds and pains that the brain interprets- is…

— Edgar Cantero