Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

- Billy Corgan

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

- Carrie Brownstein

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.

- Lady Gaga

Art lies by its own artifice.

- Ovid

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.

- Wallace Stevens