“I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person...” — Lady Gaga Quote

“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.”

“I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.”

“When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.”

“You know how someone - something - surprises you. You wake up a little bit. That's done through Chinese cuisine - for example, through dishes of artifice. That's a whole sub-tradition in Chinese cuisine. To create a dish that comes to the table looking like one thing but actually is something else.”

“I want to remove all artifice from my work, in a way, by just having a very direct relationship with the people I am filming.”

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