O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands. — Sun Tzu
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic. — Marco Tempest
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. — Pliny The Elder
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand — William Congreve
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Man is the artificer of his own happiness. — Henry David Thoreau
I adore artifice. I always have. — Diana Vreeland
Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving. — John Stoltenberg
Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? — Henri Desgrange
Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls. — Jackie Gleason
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. — Jean Baudrillard
We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies. — Cardinal Richelieu
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. — Adrienne Rich
Artifice Image Quotes
Cute Character Quotes
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. — Erma Bombeck
Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent. — Nick Lowe
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be. — Charles Kingsley
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. — Thomas Jefferson
Sometime female characters, especially in the genre of something that people consider rom-com, make mistakes in a cute way or they're a mess in a way that's palatable. I like that. — Greta Gerwig
There is a part of me that is desperately wanting to not necessarily be this cute, endearing, heart-on-his-sleeve type of character that just wants to be liked. — Colin Hanks
If you're seen as beautiful or sexy then your only options in terms of character descriptions are beautiful, sexy, cute - and that's it. And that affords you a certain amount of opportunity but that opportunity ultimately leads to a spark, never a flame. — Amber Heard
Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page. — Thomas Pynchon
Artistry Quotes
There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist. — Kara Walker
I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid. — Lady Gaga
Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better. — Mia Michaels
Put your heart and soul into the things you do. Stay up late nights, wake up early mornings, and put everything into your art. — Russell Brunson
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced. — Aldous Huxley
My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen. — Vincent Van Gogh
With EFFORT, talent becomes skill and, at the same time, effort makes skill productive. — Angela Duckworth
You can often find success at the intersection of passion and expertise. — Cliff Lerner
The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight. — Calvin Seerveld
Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri
I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft... As for me, give me a fixed gear! — Henri Desgrange
I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it. — Jonathan Demme
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which permits the complicated nature of the world to be blamed on something which is called accidental and thus permits him to abstract a domain in which simple laws can be found. — Eugene Wigner
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. — David Bowie
The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman. — Sarah Bernhardt
One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice. — Blaise Pascal
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means. — Edgar Degas
The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors. — Walter Bagehot
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. — James Joyce
There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or with raillery; whether to consider it as a mere trial of skill, like the paradoxes of rhetoricians; as a disingenuous artifice to instil prejudices at any price; or as the serious. — Alexander Hamilton
I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them. — William Shirley
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose. — William Bartram
There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take a long and circuitous route after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation. — Sun Tzu
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man who reaches it will be capable of spontaneously producing, with no effort of hesitation, a magnificent and wonderfully ordered expression of his nature and our destinies. — Paul Valery
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. — George Santayana
In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
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. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue. — Thomas Gray
We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom. — William Hazlitt
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. — Wallace Stevens
Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has some incredible sort of sexual connotation. — Madonna Ciccone
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. — Thomas Aquinas
There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles. — Andrew Solomon
If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural. — A. W. Tillinghast
I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool. — Daryl Hall
Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things. — Tertullian
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. — Walter Pater
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. — Adelbert Von Chamisso
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. — Martin Amis
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. — Robert Duvall
And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled. — Truman Capote
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. — Lady Gaga
I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music. — Carrie Brownstein
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