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This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.