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Letter "A" » artifices
«The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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artifice, artifices, artificial, artificial intelligence, lacks
«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, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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Art,
Cheating
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artifice, artifices, cheating, work through
«Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.»
Author: James Joyce
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actualities, actuality, apparently, artifice, artifices, fantastic, in a sense, revolt
«Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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«A seller-sovereign economy includes sellers who are monopolistic or oligopolistic without being confronted by the ultimate consumers who are organized in monopsonistic or ologopsonistic modes. It is an economy where enormous skill, artifice, and resources are used in getting consumers to buy what the sellers want to sell, notwithstanding the availability of more efficient, safe, economical, durable, and effective alternatives, including that of buying nothing at all.»
Author: Ralph Nader
(Activist, Lawyer)
| Keywords:
artifice, artifices, availability, durable, efficient, includes, modes, monopolistic, Sellers
«The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
artifice, artifices, artificial, depict, depicted, depicting, depicts, in a sense, kindred, medium, movement, real life, setting, theatre, The Theatre, to that
«Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that his picture is an artifice; but when he is painting, he should feel that he has copied nature. An»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art,
Nature,
Painting
| Keywords:
artifice, artifices, backs, copied, deliberately, preconceived, work in
«It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain dictates of common sense than by the practice of any artifices.»
«We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
artifice, artifices, at bottom, disguise, praiseworthy, professions
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