Blow Quote by Lydia M. Child

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

— Charles Lamb

I don't like affectation.

— Martin Freeman

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

— Thomas Carlyle

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

— John Locke

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of…

— Anonymous

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

— Robert Blair

Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

“Affect is perhaps the most difficult plane of human life to define and describe, not merely because it is a-signifying (and contemporary theory is…

— Sianne Ngai

Affectations can be dangerous.

— Gertrude Stein

Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause;…

— Henry Fielding

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

— Brian Eno

There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus…

— Eugene J. Martin