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

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

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

It is not really "artificial" intelligence if a human designed the artifice. — Nate Silver

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

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. — Lady Gaga

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity. — Francis De Sales

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content. — Alan Sokal

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. — Holly Black

I adore artifice. I always have. — Diana Vreeland

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

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

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. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

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

know a Work of Art from a Daub of Artifice) — Thomas Carlyle

It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Psychotherapy isn't a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natural healing process. — Patricia Love

Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel — Julian Barnes

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice. — Billy Corgan

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

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

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

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. — W.B.Yeats

Philosophy is a will to confront human artifice with its outside, with Nature. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

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. — Jean Anouilh

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. — James Joyce

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. — Adrienne Rich

I've never been particularly fond of the artifice of flirtation. — Elizabeth Hoyt

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

I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair. — Dita Von Teese

He hadn't lied. He honestly liked her house, for the same reasons he was drawn to the woman. There was no artifice about either one. — Ruth Wind

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

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

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

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. — Jean Baudrillard

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.
("Talking In The Dark") — Dennis Etchison

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

Maybe to his nemesis, the world was a stage, reality was a fraud, and all was artifice. How — Dean Koontz

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

The stain of place hangs on not as a birthright but as a sort of artifice, a bit of cosmetic. — Elizabeth Hardwick

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice. — Julian Barnes

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

I think I would rather just live my life," Teddy said, "not make an artifice of it. — Kate Atkinson

Maybe illusion and artifice - lies, even - are a necessary part of romance. — Jody Gehrman

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

Art lies by its own artifice. — Ovid

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength. — Emily Dickinson

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

What is given by nature is not necessarily good, what is achieved by artifice is not necessarily worthless. — John Armstrong