Exactitude is not truth.

Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.]

— Henri Matisse

Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always…

— Henri Matisse

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

— Eugene Delacroix

Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time…

— Miguel de Cervantes

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

— Charles Negre

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me…

— Barbara Kruger

Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is;…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Exactitude is the lowest form of pictorial gratification.”

— S.I. Hayakawa

Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of…

— Steven Weber

We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as a compendium…

— Stephen Jay Gould

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

— Heywood Hale Broun