Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is… — David Hare Copy Share Image
The tricks and artifices of advertising are available to the seller of the better product no less than to the seller of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I have begun drafting a memorandum for the prosecuting authorities, together with all evidence necessary to establish not only the existence of… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
I realized early on that artifice attracted me to an image more than any other quality - I mean artifice in the… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... The different artifices by which integration is effected, are changes, not from the known… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
