Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Art lies by its own artifice.
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; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden fr...
I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.
Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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, and a punch.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
Maybe illusion and artifice—lies, even—are a necessary part of romance.
Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel
I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
And the podcasting - I swear to you - on its worst day, the podcasts are better than our best films. Because they're more imaginative, and there's no artifice, and it's far more real.
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
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 - artistically.
Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.
