I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy — Robert Smithson 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
“All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Drag for me is costume, and what I'm trying to do is, sometimes I'll go around and wear makeup in the streets,… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond… — Martin Schoeller 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
Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject. — Richard Diebenkorn 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
I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in… — Lady Gaga 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
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
When I came to faith, I thought I would have to stop being an actor, because it's all about artifice and manipulation.… — Tamsin Greig Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the… — Dave Eggers 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
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
By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
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