Artistic Accuracy Quotes

When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

I think, for an artist, when you're drawing somebody who actually exists, it's a much steeper critical curve, as there is an actual representation of that person out there. You can't just interpret it any way you want.

I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

It's unfortunately true that if you mess up a single detail of the art world the whole thing seems false, and most writers are not in a position to get the details right, because they don't hang around with artists. It's not something you can get the vague gist of. It's too specific.