#artifice

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

#artifice #avoid #cannot #cheating #honesty

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

#dependence #disposition #drawn #eastern #flatter

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#artifices #both #everybody #found #history

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

#am #artifice #best #children #clothes

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

— Jean Baudrillard

#artifice #artificial #artificial intelligence #intelligence #lacks

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#i #music #never #people #play

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#based #rock #rock and roll #roll #well

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. ↗