Exactitude Quotes

Exactitude Quote of the day

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

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.

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.

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.

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

Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.

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

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

I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space.

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

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