Martin Amis

Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.

British Author

Mario Vargas Llosa

Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.

Peruvian Writer

Mira Nair

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

Indian Director

Kevin Young

The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.

Robert Duvall

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.

American Actor

Wallace Stevens

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

American Poet

Annabelle Selldorf

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.

German Architect

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.

American Singer

Laura van den Berg

Fiction accesses a certain kind of truth through artifice. I love to create worlds that operate on their own terms.

American Writer

Adrienne Rich

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

Artifice often implies a hidden motive or intent behind the trick.

Hidden Intent

Artifice carries a negative connotation, suggesting dishonesty or deceit.

Negative Connotation

The trickery implied by artifice is usually clever or involves complex planning.

Often Complex

In art and literature, artifice refers to clever techniques used to engage the audience.

Clever Techniques

Artifice is considered a literary device that authors employ to enhance their storytelling.

Literary Device

Artifice in this context is about creating something artistically skilled and imaginative.

Skillful Creation

 that life itself has to have growth as a precondition -- it has to have free energy, sunlight and it needs to be an open system of chemicals. So we're asking for human artifice to become a living thing, and we want growth, we want free energy from sunlight and we want an open metabolism for chemicals.

Cradle to cradle design...

 laterally thing writing is so first their speech and then writing comes along as a kind of artifice now don't get me wrong writing has certain advantages when you write because it's a conscious process because you can look backwards you can

Txtng is killing...

 prize but as it is easy to foresee that from different causes and from different quarters much pains will be taken many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth as this is the point in your political

Bonus Episode: Bicycles,...

 lagoon uh which is actually artificial but it it's designed in a way to to conceal its artifice