quotes about Exactitude
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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.
-- Cornelius CardewSource : Cornelius Cardew, Richard Barrett (2006). “Cornelius Cardew: A Reader”
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Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.]
-- Henri Matisse