Artifice Quotes

Artifice is art.

— Sonia Rykiel

Art lies by its own artifice.

— Ovid

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

— Anonymous

I adore artifice. I always have.

— Diana Vreeland

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Propertius

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

— Sam Lipsyte

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

— Carrie Brownstein

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

— Billy Corgan

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.

— Emily Dickinson

“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

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

— Adrienne Rich

“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

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

— James Joyce

If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.

— Douglas McCulloh

“The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")”

— Cornell Woolrich

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

— Kevin Smith

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

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

— Joseph Addison

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

[Ed Lauter] was an actor's actor. I love working with that class of actor. You know, they come in, they do it,…

— Rob Lowe

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

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

— Paul Valery

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 most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain" - that is dogmatic. "I…

— Ambrose Bierce

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

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

— Bill Roorbach

So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of…

— Simon McBurney

Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is…

— David Hare

“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

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

“Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition. ("Talking In The…

— Dennis Etchison

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.

— Truman Capote

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

— Demetri Martin

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

— E.A. Bucchianeri