Saul Bellow
Novelist
"Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining."
Accuracy quotes
Accuracy
32 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Accuracy is essential to beauty."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness."
Dean Williams
Artist
"Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same."
Maya Lin
Architect, Artist
"If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?"
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"Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction."
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"You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right."
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"What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are."
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"You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it."
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