artificial quotes

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

- SirThomas Browne
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section16.

The aimof everyartist istoarrest motion, which islife, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

-William Harrison Faulkner
  Interview in Paris Review, Spring.