A Quote by Diana Vreeland

I adore artifice. I always have.

Diana Vreeland

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Adore Always Artifice

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Diana Vreeland
American - Editor
July 29, 1906 - August 22, 1989

For me and my drag, I think camp is about exaggeration and artifice and the celebration of superficiality. A lot of my fans look up to me as a figure of femininity but that's all artifice. That's all fake and that's campy within itself, and so that's what resonates to me: the seriousness and the funniness and the artifice and the exaggeration.

Violet Chachki

If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.

Douglas McCulloh

I am addicted to 'Vogue' magazines, be they French, British - I adore, adore, adore.

Cat Deeley

I realized early on that artifice attracted me to an image more than any other quality - I mean artifice in the sense of staging and heightened color and exaggerated lighting, not a surreal or fictive moment... I think the lighting and feeling of Cinemascope, the movies I saw as a kid, always stayed with me as a kind of glorious vision of reality.

Laurie Simmons

I would never butt heads with Rob Zombie. I don't know anybody that's in acting that ever butted heads with Rob Zombie. I adore Rob. I adore him. I adore working with him. I adore knowing him. I'm happy to consider myself a friend and someone who he hires. I just think he's great.

Dee Wallace

Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself so you don't feel it's there. You're attempting to make the artifice like a pane of glass that simply leads you through to the subject - not to decorate the bloody glass.

David Hare

I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation.

Demetri Martin

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

Peabo Bryson

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

Christine Baranski

It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?

Peter Ackroyd

I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.

Anais Nin

They were soul mates, my mother and father. They claimed to adore each other, as if the word 'adore' meant 'argue with ceaselessly.

Merrill Markoe

The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.

Simone de Beauvoir

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

Benjamin Franklin

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.