Artifice Quotes

79 Artifice quotes by 72 unique authors

If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent upon… — Simon Greenleaf
I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am… — Michel de Montaigne
Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? — Henri Desgrange
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy. — Michael Arndt
I think that artifice is the new reality. It's more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you do. Whether I'm… — Lady Gaga
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 my inventions are… — Lady Gaga
Being blonde is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blonde has some… — Madonna Ciccone
Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but… — Robert Duvall
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. — Adelbert von Chamisso
Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself… — David Hare
Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... The different artifices by which integration is effected, are changes, not from the known to the unknown,… — Augustus De Morgan
Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked… — Herman Melville
We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is… — William Hazlitt
Art lies by its own artifice. — Unknown Author
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what… — Walter Pater
Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus… — Martin Amis
Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it,… — Paul McGann
Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty. — Propertius
But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts… — Gerhard Richter
I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one… — Jonathan Demme
We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence. — Joni Mitchell
All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be… — Mary Balogh
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest,… — Samuel Johnson
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means. — Edgar Degas

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