#artifice

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

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

#artistically #chooses #i #i see #life

Art lies by its own artifice. ↗

— Ovid

#art lies #artifice #lies #own

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

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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

#extent #imagination #life #live #metaphysics

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#acting #artifice #falsehood #game #games

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

— James Joyce

#against #always #apparently #artifice #even

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

#artifice #artist #believe #changing #contemporaries

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