#88 artifice

#88 artifice- a clever expedient; ingenious stratagem; crafty or subtle deception; skill, cleverness

- C16 from Latin artificium- skill; also artificer- a skilled craftsman

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty. ~Mira Nair

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. ~Adrienne Rich

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