Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of …– Robert Green Ingersoll
Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished.
Fiction accesses a certain kind of truth through …– Laura van den Berg
Fiction accesses a certain kind of truth through artifice. I love to create worlds that operate on their own terms.
I don’t have stylistic loyalty…– David Bowie
I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
I did plays in college…– Aimee Bender
I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I’m kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so maybe it will move somewhere. There’s something about plays where you can feel that sense of artifice at any moment.
I don’t see myself in terms of artifice…– Lady Gaga
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.
I’m becoming more of a novelist as I get older…– Ethan Canin
I’m becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There’s less artifice involved.
Art lies by its own …– Ovid
Art lies by its own artifice.
That sense of a life in natural objects…– Walter Pater
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
I cannot stand Hollywood child performances…– Sean Baker
I cannot stand Hollywood child performances. It just reeks of artifice, and it’s weird that, for some reason, Hollywood feels they have to make their child characters smarter than adults, and suddenly kids have the vocabulary of a college grad.
And the podcasting – I swear to you – on its worst …– Kevin Smith
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.