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.

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.

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.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song it belongs to the world and the way people perceive it it's cool.

I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.

Art lies by its own artifice.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.