artifice quotes

  • I am a free man, I do not need to copy Petrarch or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, without artifice,Igotowork and earnmy living, my well- being, and my fame.What do Ineedmore? Witha goose quill and a few sheets of paper I mock the universe.

    - Pietro Aretino
    Quoted in  J H Plumb (ed)  The Horizon Book of the Renaissance (1961, new edn by Penguin,1982).

  • It is the professional duty of the advertising agent to conceal his artifice.When Aeschines spoke, they said, 'How well he speaks', but when Demosthenes spoke, they said 'Let us march against Philip.'

    - David Ogilvy
      Confessions of an  Advertising Man, ch.5.

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

    - Laura ne  e Reichenthal Riding
      Selected Poems: In Five Sets, preface.

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