#artifice

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries. ↗

— David Bowie

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

— Adrienne Rich

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