Artifice Quotes

79 Artifice quotes by 72 unique authors

By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the… — Joshua Reynolds
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject. — Richard Diebenkorn
There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity. — Saint Francis de Sales
Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength. — Emily Dickinson
The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man… — Paul Valery
Everything you do is so personal. In the end, it doesn't matter so much if you write about your own life or not. It's going… — Jenny Hval
I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way… — Lady Gaga
Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice. — Billy Corgan
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. — James Joyce
I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see… — Mira Nair
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. — Adrienne Rich
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice. — Julian Barnes
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against… — Samuel Adams
Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I am keenly aware… — Malika Oufkir
He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and… — Zadie Smith
The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose.… — Kate Morton
The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice;… — Simone de Beauvoir
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of… — Rick Yancey
It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all… — Holly Black
And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled. — Truman Capote
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an… — Jean Baudrillard
The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice… — Frans de Waal
We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them.… — F. Sionil Jose

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