Quotes About Artifice

The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.

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

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

Rubber looks different to skin and it's very, very hard to make a prosthetic on a human look convincing if you don't light them correctly.

Then my gaze slid over the people to the blaze of green beyond the diaphanous curtains, and I felt as if I were sitting in the window of an enormous department store. The figures around me weren't people, but shop dummies, painted to resemble people and propped up in attitudes counterfeiting life.

I felt as if I were sitting in the window of an enormous department store. The figures around me weren't people, but shop dummies, painted to resemble people and propped up in attitudes counterfeiting life.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Nu se pref?cu c? se afla acolo din întîmplare; în spontaneitatea ei colÈ›uroas?, neîncrez?toare, nu înc?peau asemenea artificii.

In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.

When arguing with a woman who is strong, intelligent, and forthright, consider using trickery, artifice, and deceit.

It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.

It follows, then, that the aesthetic ideal of the categorical agreement with being is a world in which shit is denied and everyone acts as though it did not exist. This aesthetic ideal is called kitsch.

Or, il me semble qu'à la place des murs je ne voie partout que des décors. Et la destruction des décors est une chose tout à fait juste.

Se há coisa que sempre me enojou profundamente no homem é realmente ver como a sua crueldade, a sua baixeza e a sua estupidez arranjam maneira de se disfarçar sob a máscara do lirismo.

I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.

Sex is never messy on screen.

The axis of spin for the planet Arrakis is at right angles to the radius of its orbit. The world itself is not a globe, but more a spinning top somewhat fat at the equator and concave toward the poles. There is a sense that this may be artificial, the product of some ancient artifice. Report of the Third Imperial Commission on Arrakis

I don't want realism

Perhaps it was all an elaborate charade of the sort envisioned by Miles, where the dragons were large iguanas and the knights and wizards were all supplied by Central Casting. Perhaps the dream was a sham, an imitation of what the imagination would have it truly be. Even if it were all real – if it were all as described, all as the artist had rendered it to be – still it might be less than the dream. It might be as ordinary in truth as his present life.

It's all right to be a happy amateur. And it's all right to be truly gifted. But to be competent and middling bad at an artifice that you care about—that's a nightmare.

It is an objet gratuit. A work of artifice that demonstrates the bankruptcy of the quotidian.

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

The artisans are creatures of artifice; very shallow individuals.

I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.