{Lifelike/like life}[6th October 1967]

[Redbook0:10] [19671006]{Lifelike/like life}[6^th October 1967] [Age 16]

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            The business of the painter is to make things look larger than life.  If he paints a realistic scene, people will say: “This is realistic, but, of course, it is only a painting.”  So he must add touches of his own here and there, touches which, although they may rarely occur in life, will make people say: “What a clever touch!  Of course that is just what would happen in the circumstances, but could you or I have seen it and copied it down?”  These touches are part of what is known as “artistic licence”, and they are what makes a painting like life.

            To be lifelike is not the same as to be like life.

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