My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.
Post-impressionist painter
Letter to his brother Theo van Gogh
1888 (approx.)
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