Will Self

In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.

English Author

Michael Sheen

In some ways any film that you do has an artificiality about it. Even when you're doing the most kitchen-sinky, gritty, realistic scene you've still got 50 people standing around watching you with cameras and lights and things.

Welsh Actor

Ira Sachs

As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.

American Director

Lionel Barrymore

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

American Actor

Martin Landau

In film, there are always things that could conceivably create artificiality in any performance.

Alfred North Whitehead

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

English Mathematician

Colson Whitehead

I admire Vegas's purity, its entirely wholesome artificiality.

American Novelist

Artificiality emphasizes a contrast between what humans create and what exists in nature without human intervention.

Human-made versus Natural

The word can convey a feeling that something is not real or lacks authenticity.

Sense of Unreality

Artificiality is often used related to technology, such as artificial intelligence, where 'artificial' implies man-made sophistication.

Technological Context

Highlights disingenuous social interactions where people's behavior isn't a reflection of their true feelings.

Social Behavior

Indicates when emotions are displayed more for effect than as a true feeling, often in performance or rhetoric.

Emotional Impression

Refers to behaviors adopted to create a specific image or impression in the minds of others.

Impression Management

 I would argue, is in service of the lie, but it's supposed to foreground the artificiality of the fiction. For me, I kind of prefer the opposite. If I'm going to break down the fourth wall, I want fiction to escape and come into the real world.