“Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
[John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter. — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Good men's actions are natural While a scoundrel's charity Is carefully planned to please.” — Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri Copy Share Image
I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair. — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation,… — William Bartram Copy Share Image
He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and… — Paul McGann Copy Share Image
There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life… The object of art is to give life… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
And the podcasting - I swear to you - on its worst day, the podcasts are better than our best films. Because… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
Being blonde is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“Your memory creates postcard images, but it doesn't really comprehend the world at all. That's why a landscape is so affected by… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice… — Bill Roorbach Copy Share Image
There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be… — William Shirley Copy Share Image
It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject. — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“What is given by nature is not necessarily good, what is achieved by artifice is not necessarily worthless.” — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy. — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? — Henri Desgrange Copy Share Image
The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
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