Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.

-Ernst, Max
Quoted in Saranne  Alexandrian Surrealist  Art (1970).

Our composition must be more accurate in the beginning and end thaninthemidst, and intheendmore than in the beginning; for through the midst the stream bears us.

-Jonson, Ben
Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

   She was neither clear-sighted nor accurate; and in her attempts to describe morals, manners, and even facts, was unable to avoid the pitfalls of exaggeration.

-Trollope, Anthony
  Of his mother, FrancesTrollope, author of The Domestic Manners of theAmericans. Autobiography, ch.2.