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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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.
Art lies by its own artifice.
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.
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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.
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.
I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.
