A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.
You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
A theory must be tempered with reality.
A picture is a fact.
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
Life is so unlike theory.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
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