Artifice Quotes

Artifice is art.

— Sonia Rykiel

Art lies by its own artifice.

— Ovid

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

— Sam Lipsyte

Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty.

— Propertius

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

— Carrie Brownstein

“Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel”

— Julian Barnes

[John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter.

— Oliver D. Crisp

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

— Adrienne Rich

“Good men's actions are natural While a scoundrel's charity Is carefully planned to please.”

— Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri

I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.

— Dita Von Teese

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation.

— Demetri Martin

God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's…

— Martin Luther

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation,…

— William Bartram

He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation…

— Zadie Smith

I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema…

— Jonathan Demme

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

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

There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making…

— Joseph Addison

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

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

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

“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

Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence,…

— Martin Amis

When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice…

— Bill Roorbach

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

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

The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in…

— Paul Valery

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

— Eugene Delacroix

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

— Richard Diebenkorn

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

— Jean Baudrillard

“What is given by nature is not necessarily good, what is achieved by artifice is not necessarily worthless.”

— John Armstrong

“I've never been particularly fond of the artifice of flirtation.”

— Elizabeth Hoyt

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

— Michael Arndt

Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?

— Henri Desgrange

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

— George Santayana

And the podcasting - I swear to you - on its worst day, the podcasts are better than our best films. Because…

— Kevin Smith

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement…

— George Santayana