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
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
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
It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than… — Robert Duvall 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
Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me… — William Butler Yeats 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
There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech,… — Sergio De La Pava 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
The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I think that artifice is the new reality. It's more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially,… — A. W. Tillinghast Copy Share Image
Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is… — Thomas Hobbes 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
An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery… — Samuel Johnson 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
