Aesthetic truth is not exactitude.

This is a follow-up to Exactitude is not truth. Cold exactitude is not art. In that January post I looked at sources for a quote from Matisse that turned out to be taken from Delacroix. My excellent York University colleague Philippe Theophanidis collects quotes and those two caught his eye. (Browse around his site Aphelis and you’ll see a lot of great quotes, and much more.) He found that the…