Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude.
Exactitude is not truth.
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
Sex and art are the same thing.
Exactitude is not truth. [Fr. , L'exactitude n'est pas la verite. ]
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. . . . It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wilderness lies in wait.
The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the musicalness of the notation in its notating.
Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.
Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is possessed by two geniuses: dry-eyed, rigorous exactitude, and generous leaps of imagination - non-rigid, non-uniform and innovative.
