William Denton"La froide exactitude n’est pas l’art." (Cold exactitude is not art.) —Eugène Delacroix
"L’exactitude n’est pas la vérité." (Exactitude is not truth.) —Henri Matisse
A follow-up to this, chasing Delacroix's quote back a year:
Art critic Léon Peisse in 1849, in a review of a work by Delacroix:
> La vérité esthétique n’est pas l’exactitude. (Aesthetic truth is not exactitude.)
Then Delacroix writes in his journal in 1850, and says it better:
> La froide exactitude n’est pas l’art. (Cold exactitude is not art.)
