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""It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.""
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: accuracy

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"A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. "
— Richard Avedon

tags: accuracy, art, inaacuracy, perspective, photography, portraits, portraiture, truth

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"It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?"
— Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: accuracy, consistency, details, dramatic, effect, facts, holmes, sherlock, writing

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