We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.