Art lies by its own artifice.
Ovid

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

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.
Mira Nair

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

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

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
James Joyce

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

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
Jean Baudrillard

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