I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.
I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
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 adore artifice. I always have.
A class act who reflects decency, earnestness, without any sense of artifice about her.
Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.
The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.
Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.
Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.