Definition of Artifice

Artifice

A handicraft; a trade; art of making.

Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.

Artful or skillful contrivance.

Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]

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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

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

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

Art lies by its own artifice.
Ovid

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

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

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

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

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