Quotes About Artifice

And fancy means phony.

Time had the power to cancel all changes wrought by human artifice, overwriting all new revisions with further revisions, returning the flow to its original course

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

que ella pretendía con el maquillaje era

Es asombrosa la cantidad de baratijas convencionales a las que recurrimos al expresarnos por impreso. La mayoría de los escritores asumen la expresión de quienes posan para el retrato de un pintor. Recorridos de la pose y el compromiso, escalón por escalón.

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out.

Widzialny wÅ'adca widzialnej natury (Mam na myÅ›li czÅ'owieka) zapragnÄ…Å' oto stworzy? sobie Raj za pomocÄ… Å›rodków farmaceutycznych i napojów poddawanych fermentacji, podobny w tym maniakowi, który zastÄ…piÅ' solidne meble i prawdziwe ogrody dekoracjÄ… wymalowanÄ… na pÅ'ótnie i rozpiÄ™tÄ… na blejtramach.

There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

Affected simplicity is refined imposture.

True beauty is to be found in natural forms. The more we magnify, and the closer we examine, the works of Artifice, the grosser and stupider they seem. But if we magnify the natural world it only becomes more intricate and excellent.

It's magnificent to me," Daniel said. He was sincere—not trying to be a Flattering Parasite or Crafty Knave. But Hooke only became irritated. "I tell you again. True beauty is to be found in natural forms. The more we magnify, and the closer we examine, the works of Artifice, the grosser and stupider they seem. But if we magnify the natural world it only becomes more intricate and excellent.

tell you again. True beauty is to be found in natural forms. The more we magnify, and the closer we examine, the works of Artifice, the grosser and stupider they seem. But if we magnify the natural world it only becomes more intricate and excellent.

el que engaña con arte halla siempre gente que se deje engañar.

there are two forms of magic. There is a magic that is the work of the Devil and which aims at man's downfall through artifices of which it is not licit to speak. But there is a magic that is divine, where God's knowledge is made manifest through the knowledge of man, and it serves to transform nature, and one of its ends is to prolong man's very life.

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Dinâmica dos excessos e amplificações, redobramento dos artifícios, preciosidade ostentatória, o vestuário de moda da testemunho de que já se está na era moderna da sedução, da estética da personalidade e da sensualidade.

Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.

Man is a growth by law, and not a creation by artifice, and cause-and-effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things.

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

My favorite role ever was Alien in 'Spring Breakers'.