Artistic Licence Quotes

If you are adding another beauty to a beauty, then you have a soul of an artist!

I can't say I remember this bit in the book,' she commented when he was finished and she was sweeping an applicator along his collarbone and pressing it lightly into the hollow beneath. 'They call it “artistic licence”. ' 'Not just the producers trying to shoe-horn in a scene involving you in a wet shirt?' 'Why would they want that?' There was a soft gleam of white teeth as his lips parted in a smile.

The fabulous beasts of the world’s various myths are not fables, although we concede that the facts of their existence were composed in a fabulous manner. But that is a matter of style and artistic licence. Regardless of dramatic embellishment, the fundamental facts are discernable. It is not the mythic tropes and motifs that are improper or at fault, but our understanding. After we finally erect a stone pyramid to rival that at Giza, we might have the right to be condescending toward the physical and intellectual creations of our ancestors.

That’s the beauty of art: we can do what we like. We have artistic licence! Even if they were to recognise themselves, there’s nothing they can do. As long as we change the names, they can only speculate, and we can claim it’s fiction.