Artifice Quotes

Artifice Quote of the day

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

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.

I adore artifice. I always have.

Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.

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.

Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?

Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.

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.

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

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

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

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

Art lies by its own artifice.

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.

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.

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

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 uncovers himself in another.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.

There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.

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

I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.

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

[John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter.

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

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 myself the matter of my book.

We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

A TV show is an open universe, whereas a film is more of a closed universe. No disrespect to movies, there's just a lot of artifice in closing out emotional storylines after 90 minutes.

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.

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 wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.

I am so delighted when I get to see a really good movie. In that experience the artifice of movie making, the photography or the cutting style, falls away because you are inside the movie.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

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 artifice.

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

The outfit, tight in places, and loose in some, says as much in the buttons as it does in cuffs.